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Cloud Spanner Deep Dive: Building Globally Distributed Databases That Never Go Down

Posted on April 20, 2025 by Nithin Mohan TK 3 min read

Introduction: Cloud Spanner represents a breakthrough in database technology—the world’s first horizontally scalable, strongly consistent relational database that spans continents while maintaining ACID transactions. This comprehensive guide explores Spanner’s enterprise capabilities, from its TrueTime-based consistency model to multi-region configurations and automatic sharding. After architecting globally distributed systems across multiple database technologies, I’ve found Spanner uniquely […]

AWS Storage and Database Services: S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and Aurora (Part 3 of 6)

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Nithin Mohan TK 7 min read

AWS provides a comprehensive suite of storage and database services for every workload. This guide covers S3 object storage, EBS block storage, RDS relational databases, DynamoDB NoSQL, and Aurora—with production-ready code examples. 📚 AWS FUNDAMENTALS SERIES This is Part 3 of a 6-part series covering AWS Cloud Platform. Part 1: Fundamentals – Account Structure, IAM […]