On the heels of the Cloud Spanner
launch, Deepti Srivastava joins your hosts Francesc and Mark
on this week’s podcast to talk all about this globally distributed, horizontally scalable, relational database that also provides global consistency
and ACID transactions!



About Deepti

Deepti Srivastava is passionate about technology and its ability to be a positive change enabler.
As Product Manager for Cloud Spanner, on Google’s Cloud Platform, Srivastava works on best in class
Cloud Databases and Storage technologies. Srivastava is an enthusiastic member of Women@Google and a
passionate advocate of STEM education, especially for girls. She also enjoys dancing, snowboarding and all things fashion.

Cool thing of the week


Each Google Cloud Product described in 4 words or less tweet doc
Google Cloud and YouTube-8M Challenge blog


Interview


Cloud Spanner site docs
Introducing Cloud Spanner: a global database service for mission-critical applications blog
Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem blog
Quizlet Tests Cloud Spanner — The Most Sophisticated Cloud Database blog
Don’t Give Up on Serializability Just Yet • Neha Nerula youtube
CAP Theorom wikipedia
Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database white paper
Spanner, TrueTime and the CAP Theorem white paper
Cloud Next: Cloud Spanner 101: Google’s mission-critical relational database schedule
Cloud Next: Cloud Spanner 201: getting the most out of Cloud Spanner schedule
Ben Sigelman will present Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database youtube




Spanner: No-Compromise Relational Database Service


Question of the week

How do I run a mail server on the cloud?


Sending Mail from a Virtual Machine docs
Sending Email with SendGrid docs
Sending Email with Mailgun docs
Sending Email with Mailjet docs
SMTP relay: Route outgoing non-Gmail messages through Google docs


Were will we be?

Mark will be at GDC and afterwards he’ll be speaking at
Cloud NEXT, both in San Francisco.

Francesc will be at Gophercon India,
at Cloud NEXT,
and then Gopher China.