Spanner's SQL support

Go 1.18 is going to be released with generics support. Adding generics to Go was a multi-year effort and was a difficult one. Go type system is not a traditional type system and it was not possible just to bring an existing generics implementation from other language and be done. The current proposal was accepted after years of user research,...

Shard coordination has been one of the bigger challenges to design sharded systems especially for engineers with little experience in the subject. Companies like Facebook have been using general purpose shard coordinators, e.g. Shard Manager, and suggesting that general purpose sharding policies have been widely successful. A general purpose...

Update: The proposal draft has been revisited to use brackets instead of parenthesis. This article will be updated with the new syntax soon. Ian Lance Taylor and Robert Griesemer have been working on a generics proposal for Go for a while. Unlike other proposals, a highly significant language change as such generics will require experimentation...

Spanner is a relational database with 99.999% availability which is roughly 5 mins a year. Spanner is a distributed system and can span multiple machines, multiple datacenters (and even geographical regions when configured). It splits the records automatically among its replicas and provides automatic failover. Unlike traditional failover models,...

Go has been continuously growing in the past decade, especially among the infrastructure teams and in the cloud ecosystem. In this article, we will go through some of the unique strengths of Go in this field. We will also cover some gotchas that may not be obvious to the users at the first sight. Build small binaries. Go builds small binaries....