Media: Articles, videos, and podcasts
This page provides links to articles, videos, and podcasts related to Cloud Bigtable.
Articles and blog posts
Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data
Bigtable was a key component in the architecture that Spotify used
for its 2019 Wrapped campaign.
Migrating our cloud infrastructure to Google Cloud
Multi-part article describing Sift Engineering's migration to
Google Cloud, including its evaluation and adoption of
Bigtable.
Developing a JanusGraph-backed service on Google Cloud
Walk through the steps to set up a JanusGraph service that stores graph data in
Bigtable.
Bigtable brings database stability and performance to
Precognitive
Learn how Precognitive solved its scaling issues, reduced request latency, and
saved time by moving to Bigtable.
How we moved our historical stats from MySQL to Bigtable with
zero downtime
Read about Fastly's migration of its Historical Stats API database from MySQL to
Bigtable.
Bigtable: Storing protobuf bytes in one column vs. splitting the
content into column families/qualifiers
Blog post about the performance impact of splitting protocol buffer data into multiple columns in Bigtable.
How WePay uses stream analytics for real-time fraud detection using Google Cloud
and Apache Kafka
Overview of WePay's stream analytics pipeline for fraud detection, which gives
them answers to queries in near-real time without affecting their main
transactional business system. The pipeline uses several Google Cloud services,
including Bigtable and Dataflow.
How Qubit deduplicates streaming data at scale with
Google Cloud
Learn how Qubit uses Bigtable and Google Cloud to dedupe messages
at scale, with no self-managed components.
Scaling exactEarth's satellite vessel-tracking service using GeoMesa on
Google Cloud
Description of how exactEarth uses Bigtable and Google Cloud to
scale their solution for global geospatial analytics.
Bigtable paper earns the SIGOPS 2016 Hall of Fame Award
Blog post about the SIGOPS award earned by the 2006 paper,
"Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data."
Financial services firm processes 25 billion stock market events per hour with
Bigtable
A look at how FIS load-tested Bigtable's ability to process
simulated market events.
Time series data with OpenTSDB + Bigtable
Learn about Server Density's migration of their time series data to
Bigtable from MongoDB.
Big Data Processing at Spotify: The Road to Scio Describes how Spotify builds data pipelines by integrating Scio with several Google Cloud services, including Dataflow and Bigtable, which Spotify uses for large-scale batch jobs.
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data Academic paper describing Bigtable's design, implementation, and data model presented at the 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation in 2006.
Videos
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Bringing the Cloud to the 4th Industrial Revolution - Presented by Oden
Technologies
Internet of Things (IoT) NY #51 2018
Podcasts
Bigtable with Ian Lewis
Interview with Ian Lewis, a Google Cloud Developer Advocate based in Tokyo,
about Bigtable.
Server Density with David Mytton
The CEO and founder of Server Density, a scalable infrastructure monitoring
software company, talks about their experience migrating from on-premises
MongoDB to Bigtable.