[bushbaba]

Spanner research paper was in 2012. Bigtable was in 2006. GFS 2003. The last decade has been a 'lost decade' of google. Not much innovation to be honest.

[bombita]

Attention is all you need is 2017... https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

[Kubuxu]

They thought it was dead end, that is why they released it :P