With some of the best programming minds in the world, it's interesting to see that Google finds it more efficient for programmers to solve the performance issues vs reimplementing core db functionality, such as transactions.
I like the direction of moving closer to original database theory concepts and allowing the creative energy to focus on solutions to performance problems at high-scale.
They probably have a lot of great minds at the top of Google but there's still going to be a significant amount of average ones, just like in any company/structure.
I like the direction of moving closer to original database theory concepts and allowing the creative energy to focus on solutions to performance problems at high-scale.