The general availability of Cloud Spanner is really good news for developers. For the first time, you have direct access to horizontally-scaling, cloud-native infrastructure that provides global transactions (think apps that involve payments, inventory, ticketing, or financial trading) and that defaults to the “gold standard” of strong/external consistency without compromising latency. Try that wi
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