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Google Cloud Spanner represents the pinnacle of distributed systems engineering, offering the industry's only database service that combines the horizontal scalability of NoSQL with the ACID consisten...
In the world of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), the database architecture is the most consequential decision a founding engineering team will make. At the scale of Shopify or Stripe, the challenge isn't...
In the landscape of modern cloud architecture, time-series data—information indexed by time—has become the lifeblood of digital transformation. Whether it is a fleet of IoT sensors reporting telemetry...
For decades, the database world was governed by the rigid trade-offs of the CAP theorem: you could have Consistency and Availability, but only if you sacrificed Partition Tolerance—a non-starter for g...
Amazon Aurora is often marketed as the "silver bullet" for relational database scaling. By decoupling compute from storage and utilizing a log-structured distributed storage system, it solves many of ...
Google Cloud Platform offers two of the most powerful distributed databases in the world: Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable. Both were born from Google’s internal need to handle "planet-scale" workload...
Choosing between Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB is one of the most consequential decisions a cloud architect can make. While both are "cloud-native" and "highly scalable," they represent fundamenta...