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Given the title and the length of the post I was expecting a lot more detail. > Over the last year we’ve developed our new load balancer, called GLB (GitHub Load Balancer). Today, and over the next few weeks , we will be sharing the design and releasing its components as open source software. Is it common practice to do this? Most recent software/framework/service announcements I've read were just a single, longer po…
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They mention in the post that they will be open-sourcing this code over the coming weeks.
I'm talking about entire GitHub not components or Load Balancer...
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They mention in the post that they will be open-sourcing this code over the coming weeks.
I'm talking about entire GitHub not components or Load Balancer...
If they open sourced their core site, how would they make any money?
Years ago I worked at Demon Internet and we tried to give every dial up user a piece of webspace - just a disk always connected. Almost no one ever used them. But it is what the web is for. Storing your Facebook posts and your git pushes and everything else.
No load balancing needed because almost no one reads each repo.
The problem is it is easier to drain each of my different things into globally centralised locations, easier for me to just load it up on GitHub than keep my own repo on my cloud server. Easier to post on Facebook than publish myself.
But it is beginning to creak. GitHub faces scaling challenges, I am frustrated that some people are on whatsapp and some slack and some telegram, and I cannot track who is talking to me.
The web is not meant to be used like this. And it is beginning to show.
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I'm talking about entire GitHub not components or Load Balancer...
I think the model of "keep our core business software proprietary and open source all non-core software" is a good one, and one we should encourage all companies to share. If they open sourced their core site, how would they make any money?
I love using GitHub and appreciate the impact it is and has had. But this post is what is wrong with the web today. They have taken a distributed-at-it's-plumbing technology, and centralised it so much that now we need to innovate new load balancing mechanisms. Years ago I worked at Demon Internet and we tried to give every dial up user a piece of webspace - just a disk always connected. Almost no one ever used them.…
I love using GitHub and appreciate the impact it is and has had. But this post is what is wrong with the web today. They have taken a distributed-at-it's-plumbing technology, and centralised it so much that now we need to innovate new load balancing mechanisms. Years ago I worked at Demon Internet and we tried to give every dial up user a piece of webspace - just a disk always connected. Almost no one ever used them.…
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