Coming from Google, where Spanner is this magical technology that supports infinite horizontal sharding with transactions and has become the standard storage engine for everything at Google (almost every project not using Spanner was moving to Spanner), I'm curious how Figma evaluated Cloud Spanner. Cloud Spanner does have a postgres translation layer, though I don't know how well it works.
It seems like they've (hopefully only temporarily) given up real transactional support with their horizontal postgres scheme?
It seems like they've (hopefully only temporarily) given up real transactional support with their horizontal postgres scheme?