Danny McCormick

@Polber what are next steps here? Can we clean up the conflicts and merge?

@Polber what is the plan for this PR?

Hey @timgrein any update on this one?

@timgrein any updates here?

Running checks, will proceed with merge process once those complete

I want to chime in here: I think this is the right change to make. It dramatically simplifies our infrastructure and it is generally a much better practice to have...

> How do other teams handle this today? I would like to understand if there is a fundamental reason why Spanner needs to this differently, or if other services do...

Thanks @manitgupta this plan SGTM

Technically this looks good to me, and I agree we need to do something here. I think it is up to the Spanner folks on whether they want to move...

Not that I know of, @rachmari would probably know better than I