Google's production grade load balancer "Seesaw" is now OSS

joedissmeyer

This is interesting...

Google Open Sources Its Seesaw Load Balancer | TechCrunch

Also you might want to check out the L337 convo on Hacker News too - Google Open Source Load Balancer in Go | Hacker News

So even though Google is well known for developing their own internal tools for production use, I'm curious on how well this LB would work in a corporate environment.

Just for kicks I might have to test this out in my Orion lab just to see what I might be able to monitor in it.

Anyways, what do you all think about this? Big deal or no?

rschroeder

Who's tested this and compared it against F5?

I see an obvious advantage in Open Source cost, but I like the direction F5's going with firewalling built into their LTM's.