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"Currently, Apollo is developed internally at Facebook. No firm claims were made during the talk that it will be opensourced. It was mentioned as a possibility

• dj-wonk 12y ago
  HN readers, what do you think are Facebook's motivations for announcing Apollo at this point?
  • necubi 12y ago
    I'd guess that the engineers who are building it think it's cool and want to talk about it. Facebook seems to be generally open about their internal systems, presumably because they don't see it as their competitive advantage (unlike, say, Google).
    • alec 12y ago
      Google talks a fair bit about their internal systems at this level of "descriptions but not code" - Bigtable, MapReduce, Spanner, Flume, Chubby, and more have been influential.
      • timothya 12y ago
        In fact, they do more than just talk: they often publish papers describing how they work. The open source community has since recreated a lot of them, which has proven useful to a lot of people (e.g. HBase, Hadoop, Apache Crunch, etc.)
      • Jacobs 12y ago
        But also the Go language.
  • gaius 12y ago
    Recruiting tactic.