[benologist]

They only said they will release components of it as open source. They do not say if a coherent piece of software will ever be released but today would have been the traditional time to do so for actually open source projects.

It looks like marketers leveraging open source on their marketing blog that leverages developers.

[jssjr]

A "whole" piece of software would require you to have made the same data center design decisions we've made at GitHub. While some of our choices are opinionated, I think you'll find the GLB architecture adheres to the unix philosophy of individual components each doing one thing well.

Either way, I hope the upcoming engineering-focused posts are interesting and informative! Developing GLB was a challenging engineering project and if open-sourcing it means other companies can benefit from our work and spend more time developing their products, then I'll consider that a success.