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The implementation is open source. Obviously the experience helps but anyone can see how it is implemented.
by abritishguy 12y ago
The implementation is open source.
Obviously the experience helps but anyone can see how it is implemented.
- boomzilla 12y agoI think you misunderstood. The SDK [1] is open source (which has a toy implementation of the backend services: data store, queue, etc.) The actual backend services that Snapchat uses live on Google servers and are not open sourced. And that is the secret sauce I was referring to. [1] https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/ https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/
- abritishguy 12y agoAlmost all of the SDK source is also used in production app engine. Taking datastore for example, the performance characteristics of different queries is negligible - any optimisations are done at the level for which the code is open source.