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by waych
1687 days ago
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Wave launched internally at Google to much fanfare at TGIF, and the whole company was somewhat amazed at the time by its realtime collaborative editing. Wave was built as a secret project in Australia, so when it did launch, internally there was understandably some rife / confusion as to what the strategy was. The tech for appjet was primarily Javascript server-side, and I believe it used GWT for Java->Javascript client-side. This was seen as very odd to many inside Google, as javascript on the server was a new concept back then, and a far cry from the "officially supported" languages for development at Google. While the initial launch of Wave went ~okay, the product itself had massive scalability issues. The Appjet/Etherpad team was then aqui-hired and quickly relocated to Australia. While one would think they were acquired for the similarities between Wave and Etherpad, they were instead tasked with "fixing" the javascript server-side performance situation. This made sense to management as appjet had been pioneering the concept since before Node was a thing. In the end this wasn't a great outcome for the acquired team, but is typical of the aqui-hiring Google does. Doc and sheets later added comments and realtime collaborative editing, but it was all reimplemented and never directly lifted from Wave's implementation. |
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