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Who uses, chose or left Cloud Spanner, quoted from their own engineering posts, each with the link.
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Merpay’s microservices are all containerized and everything is deployed and run on Kubernetes, this idea of autoscaling the Cloud Spanner compute capacity just like we do for all our deployments using HPA, was very natural.
Merpay (Mercari) on autoscaling Cloud Spanner
2021-12-20·engineering.mercari.com ↗
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The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.