Google内部的介绍
Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database 论文原文
Thread on G+ by Jeff Dean
Building Spanner 视频 keynote Google工程师 Alex Lloyd
Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems 最早提到Spanner的，Jeff Dean在LADIS2009的keynote
Spanner: Google s next Massive Storage and Computation infrastructure
MapReduce Bigtable and Pregel have their origins in Google and they all deal with large systems . But all of them may be dwarfed in size and complication by a new project Google is working on which was mentioned briefly (may be un-intentionally) at an event last year. 