Scientists worried about intruders and military threats, but they didn’t anticipate that the network’s users would attack one another.

A synchronized timing system is disclosed for one or more of a plurality of network interconnected computers. The system utilizes a global satellite system and includes a receiver device for detecting out-of-phase signals from a plurality of satellite sources of the satellite system. A mechanism is provided for processing and phase correlating these signals to generate a single absolute time reference signal therefrom. An interface device is disposed in each computer for receiving the reference signal and adapting this signal as the internal master clock reference for the operating system of the computer. Finally, a mechanism interconnects each computer in the network of computers to synchronize the internal master clocks of the computers to the absolute time reference signal to create a plurality of network interconnected time synchronized computers. These computers may be additionally time synchronized and interconnected to other networks of computers through a global communication system such as the global Internet.

The move brings an end to the former auto executive’s leadership of Google parent Alphabet’s driverless car effort.

Learn how a Spanner-like globally-consistent multi-region deployment of YugabyteDB can run on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and other Kubernetes distributions and managed services (including Amazon EKS and Azure Kubernetes Service)

Our post 6 Signs You Might be Misunderstanding ACID Transactions in Distributed Databases describes the key challenges involved in building high performance distributed transactions. Multiple open source ACID-compliant distributed databases have started building such transactions by taking inspiration from research papers published by Google. In this post, we dive deeper into Percolator and Spanner, the two Google systems behind those papers,...

Prof. Daniel Abadi, lead inventor of the Calvin transaction management protocol and the PACELC theorem, wrote a thought-provoking post last month titled “NewSQL database systems are failing to guarantee consistency, and I blame Spanner”. The post takes a negative view of software-only Google Spanner derivative databases such as YugaByte DB and CockroachDB that use Spanner-like partitioned consensus for single shard transactions and a two phase commit (2PC) protocol for multi-shard (aka distributed) ACID transactions....

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Google has proven time and again it is on the extreme bleeding edge of invention when it comes to scale out architectures that make supercomputers look

F1 is a relational distributed transactional database. And it's built on Google's Spanner so that it can reach strong consistency. It combines RDBMS features and NoSQL scalability. And it maintains ACID guarantees and provides a distributed scalable database system.

Spanner is a distributed SQL database developed by Google.[1] Spanner is a globally distributed database service and storage solution. It provides features such as global transactions, strongly consistent reads, and automatic multi-site replication and failover.

Google is making its database tech available to customers.

At re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Time Sync Service which provides a highly accurate and reliable global time reference. This service is immediately available in all AWS regions. In many ways, Amazon Time Sync Service is truly inspired by Google' TrueTime. TrueTime is a global reference

According to internal data viewed by Insider, these are the names helping Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian run one of the company's most important orgs.

The Supreme Court weakens legal copyright protection.

A Texas-led antitrust case accuses the search giant of manipulating digital advertising markets, in part through an alleged agreement with rival Facebook aimed at preserving Google’s dominance.

The program used past bid data to boost the tech company’s win rate in advertising auctions, according to a court filing.

If someone knows even a little about Spanner, the first question they have is: "How does CockroachDB provide external consistency without atomic clocks?"