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Spanner - Google's Distributed Database
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Summary
Sebastian Kanthak overviews Spanner, covering details of how Spanner relies on GPS and atomic clocks to provide two of its most innovative features: Lock-free strong (current) reads and global snapshots that are consistent with external events.
Bio
Sebastian Kanthak is a software engineer at Google working on Spanner, Google's planet-scale distributed database. He leads the Paxos & concurrency team that deals with replication, transactions, and other concurrency modes.
About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.
Nov 25, 2013