Distributed Systems

Google announced a downloadable edition of Cloud Spanner that runs on-premises, on rival clouds, or on a laptop, dismantling a dependency on proprietary infrastructure that its engineers once thought impossible to remove.

SIG-etcd has released the first beta of etcd 3.7.0, introducing streaming reads for large result sets, up to 2x faster lease operations, and the complete elimination of all v2 API code.

A three-part Netflix Tech Blog series and subsequent InfoQ coverage reveal how the streaming company built a custom graph platform atop Apache Cassandra and EVCache, bypassing traditional graph databases to serve social graphs, service topology, and real-time distributed graphs at internet scale.