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Spanner - Google's Distributed Database

Offered By: Strange Loop Conference via YouTube

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Overview

Explore Google's planet-scale distributed database, Spanner, in this 41-minute conference talk from Strange Loop 2013. Dive into the system's architecture, which partitions and replicates data across thousands of servers while offering features typical of traditional databases, including transactions, a familiar row/column data model, and SQL query support. Discover how Spanner leverages GPS and atomic clocks to provide innovative capabilities such as lock-free strong reads and globally consistent snapshots. Led by Sebastian Kanthak, a Google software engineer heading the paxos & concurrency team, gain insights into the intricacies of replication, transactions, and concurrency modes in this groundbreaking distributed database system.

Syllabus

"Spanner - Google's Distributed Database" by Sebastian Kanthak (2013)


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Strange Loop Conference

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