Building Next-Generation Databases at Google: Cloud Spanner Under the Hood

Dive into Google Cloud's innovative architecture and its solutions for the digitized economy in this 32-minute conference talk. Explore common architectural patterns employed by Google Ads and Gmail to achieve infinite scale, developer productivity, and efficiency. Uncover how Google Cloud databases leverage shared infrastructure components, including a highly durable distributed storage system, disaggregated compute and storage at every stack layer, and high-performance networking infrastructure, to deliver unparalleled availability and reliability. Gain insights from speakers Chris Taylor, Pratibha Suryadevara, John Fisher, and Jason Erickson as they reveal the inner workings of Cloud Spanner and its role in building next-generation databases at Google.