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What do they use in-house?

• gecko 16y ago
  Perforce.
  • powdahound 16y ago
    I've heard that the server it runs on is the most powerful machine Google owns. Perforce can't be distributed and has to keep track of all the files that are opened by every user (p4 edit). Must be quite a beast.
    • mosburger 16y ago
      When I last used Perforce about five years ago, it did allow for read-only proxies to help reduce the load on the main server, particularly in environments where the developers were geographically dispersed. It worked quite well.
    • snprbob86 16y ago
      And when I was there a few years ago, it was also the slowest service with the most downtime. grumblegrumble* I hope that they have addressed that by now.
      • nostrademons 16y ago
        Nope, it's still basically that way. Well, Mondrian seems to have more downtime, but a lot of Mondrian outages are really Perforce outages that propagate down the stack.
    • mcbain 16y ago
      Both Google and Perforce have talked about the install from time to time - for example this 2007 paper: http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/34459.pdf http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/34459.pdf
• deleted 16y ago
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• tghw 16y ago
  A customized Perforce
• chollida1 16y ago
  A very customized perforce setup. EDIT ah the danger of opening up many tabs and then reading them later. Two people already beat me to the punch by 30 minutes:)
• technomancy 16y ago
  The Android team uses git.
  • js2 16y ago
    As does Chromium OS, meanwhile Chromium uses subversion.