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It is a load balancer Google is using in production: http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/29/google-open-sources-its-see...

Edit: Here's the official Google announcement: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2016/01/seesaw-scalabl...

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It's not used in production, it's used in "corp" which is totally disjoint from production at Google.

How is that not "using it in production"? Internal usage is still production usage.

When Google, Facebook, etc. refer to "production" they typically mean google.com, facebook.com, etc.

EDIT: If you're going to down-vote this comment, at least provide detaro with the correct answer to his/her question!

I didn't downvote, but your statement in no way refutes parent argument. Typically =/= always. It's similar to someone declaring "HN was down", and you reply by saying "HN is typically up"

It was more like someone saying, "Foo is not bar," someone else saying, "How is foo not bar? Bar is bar," and then me saying, "Because bar has a different meaning, colloquially, at certain companies."

At least 2 years ago it was already not always the case and things were moving towards unification rather than the other way around. Unless the general direction has drastically changed since I left I can only assume your statement is even less accurate now than it used to be.

You're right but this particular piece of software is an artifact of the old way, not the new unified way.

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