Lately there has been a lot of talk about Google Zanzibar that gets sent my way. I guess this is to be expected when you found a company based on the Zanzibar paper and give a talk on Google's Zanzibar system for Papers We Love. In most of these discussions, there seem to be a number of misconceptions about why Google built Zanzibar, what it does for them, and why it’s important. At its core, Goog