Google Gets Slack with Software Updates 94
An anonymous reader writes "While Google's open source project titled 'Slack' was released over a year ago, last week's Australian Unix Users Group Conference marks the first time that Google has ever discussed the system in public. Corporate systems administrator Michael Still helped to illuminate a little bit about how Google uses Slack and how their network of computers fits together. From the article: '"Slack is a source deployment system and it's the way we install applications on servers," Still said, adding Slack is based around a centralized configuration repository which is then deployed onto selected machines in a "pull" method. Each of the "worker" machines asks for its new configuration regularly or when a manual command is run.'"
Re:FP (Score:4, Funny)
s/News/Slashdot is a little more accurate
Maybe Google bought OSTG when nobody was looking. Might help explain why Taco's omelet is a little heavy on the Google sauce lately.
Slackware (Score:1, Funny)
Can't google come up with their own name?
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Re:Makes sense (Score:2, Funny)
I knew it! (Score:5, Funny)
Google makes Slack.
Ergo,
Google is the corporate incarnation of 'Bob'!
Re:FP (Score:4, Funny)
Thanks. All the bleach in the world isn't going to help me with that mental image.
Dobbs saves (Score:1, Funny)
Lazy Authors Desperate Acronym. Also the name of car but never used in Software, unlike slack.
Bob talks to me, and he says:
Tell them to give the slack back or purchase a SubGenius church membership!
BTW, can I interest you in my new local file search tool called GOOG, an acronmy for GOOG OOOH OOOH GOOG which is inspired by the John Lennon song but modified to not offend JOOOS. Do Google have any Walruses on their hard drives? It finds Walruses better than anything else, for the love of Bob praise GOOG!
It may be an homage, true (Score:5, Funny)
Naming an automated package management/software update system after Slackware? That's cute.