Q Maybe talk about the, the history of it, because it's been around for a while, right? When, when was it created?
A I don't remember off the top of my head, but it's a logical evolution from Bigtable, which was the previous storage system of choice at Google. And where it came about is Bigtable is only run in a single data center, and if you need to have more than one copy of your data across different data centers, which is probably a good thing, um, that's where Spanner comes in. Spanner is able to replicate your data across multiple data centers. The other switch that happened in Spanner is that we moved to a relational model, and what we found is that it's much easier for our application developers who are used From industry to using a SQL model to then use a SQL model on Google as well.
AI assessment note: “I don't remember off the top of my head, but it's a logical evolution”