The Go rewrite of dl.google.com happened last year [1]. Today, Brad Fitz gave a presentation about the rewrite and open-sourced a component of the rewrite, groupcache[2].
I don't know if its that old, but there was definitely a talk on this presented some time back. From what I remember, there was a lot of HN discussion around "well that's great but its just a download server" and some other people saying "yeah but its a complicated download server".
It could be least a year old, title from a slide: "Summary of 5-year old code in 2012", but then again perhaps that's when they started the re-write in Go.
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Either I'm having deja vu, or despite the date on the presentation, this is at least a year or two old
The Go rewrite of dl.google.com happened last year [1]. Today, Brad Fitz gave a presentation about the rewrite and open-sourced a component of the rewrite, groupcache[2].
[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/golang-nuts/dl.go...
[2]: https://github.com/golang/groupcache
I don't know if its that old, but there was definitely a talk on this presented some time back. From what I remember, there was a lot of HN discussion around "well that's great but its just a download server" and some other people saying "yeah but its a complicated download server".
Groupcache is the interesting new part of the presentation, and it was just open-sourced a few days ago.
It could be least a year old, title from a slide: "Summary of 5-year old code in 2012", but then again perhaps that's when they started the re-write in Go.