In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Deepti Srivastava, lead product manager for Cloud Spanner at Google, discusses that service's new multi-region capabilities and Google's promise of 99.999% availability. She also shares some thoughts on the best use cases for Spanner and other cloud databases; the importance of database options in choosing a cloud provider; and the evolution of database technology that got us here -- "here" being geographically distributed, ACID-compliant SQL databases configurable with just a few clicks.

Ep. 44: Google's Deepti Srivastava on multi-region Spanner and case for cloud databases

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Ep. 44: Google's Deepti Srivastava on multi-region Spanner and case for cloud databases

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