native databases and storage for games

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Cloud Spanner is presented as a strongly consistent, globally distributed relational database that removes manual sharding, provides serializability/external consistency, and supports regional or multi‑regional configs with up to five nines availability. Niantic migration data claims ~50% lower operational costs and ~25% lower latency. Open Saves is an open‑source storage layer running on GKE/Cloud Run that uses Cloud Memorystore, Datastore and Cloud Storage, offers JRPC client bindings, optimized placement, chunked uploads, and a local Spanner emulator for testing.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:31Overview
3. 0:47The current game industry
4. 1:42System failure
5. 2:07Hidden costs
6. 2:31spanner
7. 3:18transactional consistency
8. 5:28serializability
9. 7:40minimizing downtime
10. 8:27regional vs multiregional
11. 9:19Global fiber optic network
12. 9:56Pokemon Go
13. 11:08OpenSaves

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