This page provides links to articles, videos, and podcasts related to Cloud Spanner.
Blog announcements
- Cloud Spanner adds enhanced query introspection, new regions, and new multi-region configurations
Announcement of query statistics, eight new regional configurations, and two new multi-region configurations. - Develop and deploy apps more easily with Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable
Announcement of Data Manipulation Language (DML) for Cloud Spanner. - On Google Cloud Platform, your database your way
Announcement of general availability of import/export, preview of DML, and preview of introspection improvements. - Cloud Spanner adds import/export functionality to ease data movement
Announcement of import and export using AVRO and Cloud Dataflow. - Announcing Google Cloud Spanner as a Vault storage backend
Announcement of Cloud Spanner as a storage backend for HashiCorp Vault. - With multi-region support in Cloud Spanner, have your cake and eat it too
Announcement of the general availability of Cloud Spanner multi-region configurations. - Introducing Cloud Spanner: a global database service for mission-critical applications
Announcement of the public launch of Cloud Spanner.
Articles
Videos
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Customer stories
Articles and case studies
- Architecting live NCAA predictions: from archives to insights
- Behind the scenes with the Dragon Ball Legends GCP backend
- COLOPL: Getting started with PHP and Cloud Spanner
- How Cloud Storage offers strongly consistent object listing thanks to Spanner
- How Recruit used Cloud Spanner to build our email personalization system, from "Soup" to nuts
- How Shine built a brand new bank on Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Spanner
- How Streak built a graph database on Cloud Spanner to wrangle billions of emails
- Optiva: Transforming the telecommunications industry
- Quizlet tests Cloud Spanner - the most sophisticated cloud database
Videos
Customer innovations
- AfterShip: Turning to Google Cloud Platform to support continued steep growth
- L.L. Bean: Modernizing the IT architecture
- Marketo: Multi-Region support in Cloud Spanner
- Mixpanel: Scalable, high-performance product analytics
- Maxwell MRI: Revolutionizing healthcare delivery with AI on GCP
- MWM: Using Google Cloud Platform to coordinate its growth worldwide
- Picmonkey: Giving customers more value with Google Cloud Platform
- Route4Me: Increasing customer success with fast, reliable vehicle routing
- Whisper: Building the media company of the future
Technical guidance
Blog posts
- From NoSQL to new SQL: How Spanner became a global, mission-critical database
- Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem
- Sharding of timestamp-ordered data in Cloud Spanner
- What DBAs need to know about Cloud Spanner, part 1: keys and indexes
- Why you should pick strong consistency, whenever possible
