I should also add there was a nice paper published about the clock system that Spanner uses to achieve some of its consistency properties with low latency:
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Why Was Google’s BigTable Named BigTable?
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Did you know why BigTable was called BigTable? That one is a bit less subtle, I suppose..
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AI Assistance Becomes Default in Coding Practices
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haha nice i love that it just rolls the default over. "coding" basically assume AI assistance as the default coding now, legacy coding becomes "handcoding".
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Spanner: The Story Behind Google’s Global Data Storage Name
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Fun fact: I helped pick the name Spanner because it would "span" all of our data centers with a single storage system. Later, my British colleagues threw a wrench into my thinking by pointing out that to them, a spanner was, well, a wrench. Leading to this meaning today:
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Spanner Wins ACM SIGMOD Systems Award for Global Scale
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Great to see Spanner recognized with this year's ACM SIGMOD Systems Award "for reimagining relational data management to enable serializability with external consistency at global scale". I was fortunate to be able to work on the first versions of Spanner with awesome colleagues
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What’s New in AI and Tech: Latest Developments
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Hello, I’m interested in learning more about what’s been cooking
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Cerebras Offers More Performance at Lower Costs
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AI Model Training Costs Skyrocket with Massive Data Center Operations
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To train AI models, companies are burning through millions of dollars to run thousands chips non-stop in sprawling data centers. https://
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Llama 4 Performance Benchmarks on SambaNova Cloud
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What can you expect out of #Llama4 on SambaNova Cloud? Scout at 697 t/s Maverick up to 800+ t/s Tested & verified by @ArtificialAnlys Safe to say we're on the list of best providers — llama-nate it.