This is the audio version of a blog post, published on www.mydistributed.systems, by Mohammad Roohitavaf.

Spanner provides strictly serializable distributed transactions on a global scale. Spanner was introduced in 2012, and today, it is available as a managed service called Cloud Spanner via Google Cloud Platform. CockroachDB and YugaByteDB are two open-source products based on Spanner. In this episode, we see how Spanner provides strictly serializable distributed transactions while being a replicated and partitioned database.

Blog Post: https://www.mydistributed.systems/2020/08/google-spanner.html