The #CloudSpanner paper “Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database" received the 2022 SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award. While that in and of itself is pretty cool, what's more cool?

Hearing from Chris Taylor, one of the original authors of the paper, about the context and inspiration behind Spanner. ↓

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/reflecting-on-spanner-papers-sigops-hall-of-fame-award

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Reflecting on Spanner paper’s SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award | Google Cloud Blog

For ten years, Spanner has delivered always-on experiences at scale to users across the world without sacrificing consistency.

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