I agree with your line of thinking. But at really big companies with hundreds of small teams, all working on separate projects, when the boss says to hook all t

I agree with your line of thinking. But at really big companies with hundreds of small teams, all working on separate projects, when the boss says to hook all that stuff together I'm sure a solution like Spanner looks really delicious and cost-effective. For you and me working with data we already understand and added to our project piece by piece, we can safely shard and compartmentalize.