Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by pbreit » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 4:16 AM UTC

Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
venturebeat.com

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by pbreit » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 4:27 AM UTC

Well, not quite a competitor. I presume it's expected to work better with Google Cloud than elsewhere?

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by empyrical » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 4:40 AM UTC

pbreit wrote: post #2

Well, not quite a competitor. I presume it's expected to work better with Google Cloud than elsewhere?

Yeah, it looks like it's mainly a way to manage code you're running on Google Cloud services

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by bradhe » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 4:40 AM UTC

So interesting. This race for features between the cloud vendors feels crazy to me, but totally makes sense from a business perspective. Classic attempt at locking you in to a single platform.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by camhenlin » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 4:46 AM UTC

Can't wait to see how long it takes them to get rid of this one like they did with Google Code

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by exacube » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 4:48 AM UTC

This article is just click bait.

Pretty sure this product is just so you can store your code/repo for your project using Google's cloud services. It's part of a whole for their cloud offering.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by thekevan » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 4:50 AM UTC

This just seems to be a place to have the code that you run on Google Cloud Platform. Not exactly a competitor.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by personjerry » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 4:54 AM UTC

Hasn't Google Code existed for ages?

No one seemed to like it. Heck, Google didn't seem to like it enough to give it any love, just check out the UI on the site: https://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label%3aPython

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by wasd » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 4:55 AM UTC

Sure, it'll compete with GitHub but I think a more exciting possibility is that it'll compete with Heroku. CodeCommit (similar service offered by AWS) integrates with other AWS services to help manage deployment and releases but I still find the entire AWS platform to be very difficult to use. I would love to see Google add pressure to all three companies to make their respective products better.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by mdekkers » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 4:57 AM UTC

...because google code worked out so well....