ArchiTECHt Daily: Google's flexes its engineering muscle in cloud battle
On any other day, the cloud press might have been going crazy over AWS's new WebEx-style communication service Chime, and perhaps AWS's new Elastic Block Store volumes, as well. But yesterday was not any other day: It was the day that Google announced its long-awaited Spanner database as a service (more detail on that later).What we're seeing in the increasingly heated battle between the two companies, encapsulated by yesterday's news, is that AWS has inherited the DNA of its parent company, bett