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This article comes across as really cynical and entirely lacking in the kind of rigor and detail I have previously found on highscalability. Spanner is really m
by cgs1019 14y ago
This article comes across as really cynical and entirely lacking in the kind of rigor and detail I have previously found on highscalability. Spanner is really mind-blowingly cool tech. I thought this article was much more informative and worth the time to read: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4562546 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4562546
- efuquen 14y ago"Another complicating factor is that as Masters of Disk it’s not surprising Google ..." Masters of Disk? He seriously that that was a good line? One of the many things that annoyed me about that post. Thanks for the links.
- josephcooney 14y ago"He seriously that that was a good line?" Ironic.
- apu 14y agoMuphry's law
- Jare 14y agoI think the notes about transactions are quite valid as the point of a HS post. However the author didn't have anything else to add ("I look forward to more insightful commentary. There’s a lot to make sense of") yet felt the need to keep writing, and filled the article with style and attitude rather than substance.