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Why would anyone marry themselves to Google? That sounds like the most boneheaded move possible.

First, you should never be beholden to a single vendor for the most critical technological underpinnings. You're backing yourself into a corner.

But more importantly, Google can't even figure out how to prioritize their cloud efforts. That's not a good partnership to be in for anyone except Google.

I wouldn't care if my solution was 10x worse than Cloud Spanner from a technology perspective. It'd be 1000x better from a strategy perspective.

You can hire engineers to do consistency at scale. It's your core competency and you can't just handwave and outsource that, lest you wind up stuck in a crevasse. Hire smart engineers and do the work yourself. It'll pay off.




You can't, that's why spanner only exists a Google. That tech is that good, not found anywhere else.


But you don't need it. There are a limitless number of ways to deal with the problems spanner solves. And by choosing your own, you can focus on the subset that matter to your case and not be tied down to Google.




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