[gwright]

While I understand that NIH syndrome is a real thing, it is very dissapointing to read many of the comments here.

I think very few HN readers are really in a position to have an informed opinion regarding Github's decision to build new piece of software rather than using an existing system.

Personally I find this area quite interesting to read about because it is very difficult to build highly available, scalable, and resilient network service endpoints. Plain old TCP/IP isn't really up to the job. Dealing with this without any cooperation from the client side of the connection adds to the difficulty.

I look forward to hearing more about GLB.