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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

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Post by mchanson »

unwind wrote: post #8

Not 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…

Back around 1990 I had a class /16 and I was just a 14 year old. Before the web explosion it was a different time. Domains used to be free back then too!

Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go

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Post by jrochkind1 »

manacit wrote: post #12
unwind wrote: post #8

Not 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...

Less about 'of their size' then about how long they've been around, since back in the days when a large company could get a /8, and just about anyone could get a /16.

Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go

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Post by chatmasta »

unwind wrote: post #8

Not 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…

You might find this guide to calculating subnets helpful. ;)

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/cisco/30.1_Quick_subnet_calcul...

Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go

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Post by untog »

unwind wrote: post #8

Not 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…

People are curious simply because Apple is so damn secretive. I'm not sure I'd ever want to work there because it seems I would be unable to talk to anyone about my projects, ever.

Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go

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Post by dagw »

unwind wrote: post #8

Not 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…

HP has two /8 subnets. What's even weirder is that Eli Lilly (the pharmaceutical company) and Halliburton (the oil company) also both have one.

(as others have said, you mean /8)

Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go

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Post by pjmlp »

wyager wrote: post #9
aikah wrote: post #7

Earlier 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 is a general purpose language. I fail to see what it lacks.

Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go

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Post by pjmlp »

melling wrote: post #10
aikah wrote: post #7

Earlier 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.

It's not as mature. Doesn't have the library and third party support. Does Apple use Mac OS for all its servers? They use Azure for some servers? That would imply they need the language to be cross-platform.

Given how it interoperates with Objective-C runtime, I would say it already has lots of libraries to choose from.

Re: Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go

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Post by jackhammer »

dagw wrote: post #26
unwind wrote: post #8

Not 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…

HP has two /8 subnets. What's even weirder is that Eli Lilly (the pharmaceutical company) and Halliburton (the oil company) also both have one. (as others have said, you mean /8)

I seems like organisations that where early adopters of the internet got one.
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