On 04/30/2015 12:40 PM, John Dickinson wrote:
Swift is a scalable and durable storage engine for storing
unstructured data. It's been proven time and time again in production
in clusters all over the world.
We in the Swift developer community are constantly looking for ways
to improve the codebase and deliver a better quality codebase to
users everywhere. During the past year, the Rackspace Cloud Files
team has been exploring the idea of reimplementing parts of Swift in
Go. Yesterday, they released some of this code, called "hummingbird",
for the first time. It's been proposed to a "feature/hummingbird"
branch in Swift's source repo.
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/178851
I am very excited about this work being in the greater OpenStack
Swift developer community. If you look at the patch above, you'll see
that there are various parts of Swift reimplemented in Go. During the
next six months (i.e. before Tokyo), I would like us to answer this
question:
What advantages does a compiled-language object server bring, and do
they outweigh the costs of using a different language?
Of course, there are a ton of things we need to explore on this
topic, but I'm happy that we'll be doing it in the context of the
open community instead of behind closed doors. We will have a
fishbowl session in Vancouver on this topic. I'm looking forward to
the discussion.
Awesome discussion topic. I've long argued that OpenStack should be the
API, not the implementation, to allow for experimentation in other
languages such as Golang.
Kudos to the Rackspace Cloud Files team for this effort. I'll definitely
dig into the code.
Best,
-jay
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