I am doubtfull Apple wants to compete with Google in search.
Or maybe it's a way for Steve Jobs to get a revenge post-mortem on Google for Android!
Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go
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Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go
#12Not at all sure why it's relevant which programming languages they use at Apple. Is this considered interesting since it somehow proves the mainstream adoption of Go? Or since Apple, a competitor of Google's in cell phones, are using one of Google's technologies? Or what? The takeaway for me was that Apple has a whole /8 subnet to themselves. That's just ... immense, for a single company. Gaah. EDIT: Mis-typed the ne…
A /24 for a company of their size is nothing - they actually have the entire 17.0.0.0/8 to themselves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addres...
Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
lol,i'm not sure why anybody would be sacked because "Google product" ;) however,I wonder why they didnt use Swift,and it's a question.
Swift was designed for coding user-facing applications, not internet utilities.
Can you explain what that means? Which language features is Swift missing?
Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go
#14Not at all sure why it's relevant which programming languages they use at Apple. Is this considered interesting since it somehow proves the mainstream adoption of Go? Or since Apple, a competitor of Google's in cell phones, are using one of Google's technologies? Or what? The takeaway for me was that Apple has a whole /8 subnet to themselves. That's just ... immense, for a single company. Gaah. EDIT: Mis-typed the ne…
>The takeaway for me was that Apple has a whole /24 subnet to themselves. That's just ... immense, for a single company. Gaah
(I think you mean /8.) Brace yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addres...
Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go
#15> So far, I have seen requests from two IPs: 17.147.18.33 (7 on 2014-10-15) and
17.147.18.33 (7 on 2014-10-15)
One of these should be .35, judging by the logs that follow ;)
Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go
#16Perhaps a proxy designed for iOS testing?
Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go
#17Not at all sure why it's relevant which programming languages they use at Apple. Is this considered interesting since it somehow proves the mainstream adoption of Go? Or since Apple, a competitor of Google's in cell phones, are using one of Google's technologies? Or what? The takeaway for me was that Apple has a whole /8 subnet to themselves. That's just ... immense, for a single company. Gaah. EDIT: Mis-typed the ne…
A /24 is only 255 addresses...
Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go
#18Go is a fantastic language for writing a crawler. I wrote the Showyou crawler in Go and it's both one of our highest load processes (and it's very efficient, trust me) and most stable.
Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
lol,i'm not sure why anybody would be sacked because "Google product" ;) however,I wonder why they didnt use Swift,and it's a question.
Swift was designed for coding user-facing applications, not internet utilities.
Swift was designed to do everything - one language to rule them all. To quote from Apple's Swift page: "Swift is a successor to the C and Objective-C languages."
My guess would be that the webcrawler was started before Swift was allowed to escape from the Developer Tools enclave.
Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go
#20Way to get someone sacked at apple.
Why shouldnt someone at apple use Go. Servers/scripts/etc are not their usual focus and they dont really have an internal language that fits better. Go is pretty good at this kind of things.
I like Go, but fail to see how Swift and C++14 don't fit the bill as well.
EDIT: changed to a more constructive comment.