GIFEE is "Google's infrastructure for everyone else"

What does it mean?

Who knows really. Google things for everyone?

What is GitHub/GIFEE?

GitHub/GIFEE is a place to experiment with ideas based on Google's infrastructure and for reference architectures.

What will be built?

GIFEE will initially be composed of some of Google's early foundational systems such as GFS, Chubby and BigTable.

Will it be hosted?

GIFEE projects will likely be hosted at gifee.cloud

Will it be Open Source?

Yes all GIFEE projects will be open source

Can we contribute?

Yes. Whether it be reference architectures, docs, images, whatever. Please join in on the fun.

Community

GIFEE has a slack at gifee.slack.com. Invite yourself at slack.gifee.cloud

Follow on twitter at @gifeecloud

Papers

Here's some papers to read. We'll be basing our tech off these starting with 2006 technologies.

• The Google File System
• The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems
• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
• MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters

More papers

• Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure
• Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
• Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services
• Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database
• Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer

Projects

Here's a list of existing projects based on or related to GIFEE

Borg

• Kubernetes Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
• Nomad A Distributed, Highly Available, Datacenter-Aware Scheduler
• Mesos A distributed systems kernel

BigTable

• HBase A distributed, scalable, big data store

Chubby

• Zookeeper Highly reliable distributed coordination
• Etcd Distributed reliable key-value store

GFS

• Torus Torus Distributed Storage
• HDFS A distributed Java-based file system

Spanner

• CockroachDB A Scalable, Survivable, Strongly-Consistent SQL Database