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paperdistributed systemsMay 2026

Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database

James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein et all [Google Inc]

Summary

Spanner

"Why is it (Spanner) needed"

(Prepping for interview - will continue soon)

Key promises of Zookeper

Consistency level

How the key promises of Zookeper are tighted to its design

Tradeoffs made

Caveats

Some key quotes

Low-level implementation

Real-life example of systems using Zookeper