Google Spanner Paper Published

Google publishes the academic paper 'Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database,' detailing its internally developed, highly available, and strongly consistent relational database.

Significance

This paper served as a blueprint and profound inspiration for an entire generation of distributed database engineers, including the future founders of YugabyteDB. It proved that globally distributed ACID transactions were achievable at scale, setting a new benchmark for database design.