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TrueTime and spanner definitely fall in the wow category at least for me Microsoft one of the worlds top software companies couldn’t keep up with chrome. There
by zaphirplane 4y ago
TrueTime and spanner definitely fall in the wow category at least for me
Microsoft one of the worlds top software companies couldn’t keep up with chrome.
There are a lot of projects that look easy at a POC stage and are very different at million of users, millions of tps, millions of TB or full featured
- rizzaxc 4y agoChrome was released in 2008. Microsoft is doing fine with Edge, though it's a moot point because Microsoft is even older and more sluggish than Google. Spanner seems a prototypical Google dev product though; it's only invented to serve Google. I don't think any of their solutions is the de facto choice in any tech stack.
- meowtimemania 4y agoEdge is just reskinned chrome browser. They discontinued their previous browser
- dekhn 4y agoSpanner is definitely the system I would want to use if I had $$$, ran on GCP, and needed to do large-scale distributed database processing. It was invented to serve Google (really: the people who had outgrown bigtable's limited featureset) but is widely applicable.