Bigtable is one of those papers that sounds intimidating until you actually read it, and then it clicks. Sparse sorted map. Column families. Versioned cells. It's elegant once you see it.

So I built it in Go to make sure I actually understood it. No external packages, no shortcuts. just the paper and a blank file.

Blog link: https://jitesh117.github.io/blog/implementing-google-bigtable-in-golang/