This is a lovely little article that speaks of the unscalability of distributed transactions. However, to my great surprise, Google is apparently putting distri

This is a lovely little article that speaks of the unscalability of distributed transactions. However, to my great surprise, Google is apparently putting distributed transactions in the Spanner project, the next generation of BigTable. See Jeff Dean's talk here: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/10/17/JeffDeanDesignLessonsAndAdviceFromBuildingLargeScaleDistributedSystems.aspx http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/10/17/JeffDeanDesignLe...