[SR2Z]

YouTube hasn't used Vitess for a few years - they've moved into Spanner almost entirely.

Otherwise I agree with you.

[jolynch]

That's good to know - Spanner is even more impressive engineering!

I wish we had the staff and time to build and maintain something like Spanner. Different constraints lead to different solutions.

[pjmlp]

So basically, out of Go, into C++.

One of the conference demos on how Go is used internally is now gone.