<story><title>Google Spanner&apos;s Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/24/google-spanners-most-surprising-revelation-nosql-is-out-and.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>It&apos;s really funny to watch tech journalists try to write about Google infrastructure from the outside, based only on one paper...&lt;p&gt;Hell, it&apos;s usually really funny just to watch tech journalists try to write.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Spanner&apos;s Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/24/google-spanners-most-surprising-revelation-nosql-is-out-and.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sigil</author><text>Buzzword headline aside, the Spanner paper is great and worth your time. As is the BigTable paper, the Dremel paper, and the Paxos Made Live paper.&lt;p&gt;I read the Google whitepapers and wonder, is there anywhere else one can go to work on real solutions to distributed systems problems? At smaller scales you can cheat -- you don&apos;t need Paxos, you can get away with non-consensus-based master / slave failover. You can play the odds with failure modes. At Google&apos;s scale, you can&apos;t: behavior under normally unlikely failures matters, probability matters, CAP matters.</text></comment>