This page provides links to articles, videos, and podcasts related to Cloud Spanner.
Blog announcements
- Visit the official Google Cloud blog to catch up on Cloud Spanner news.
Articles
- Spanning the database world with Google, an interview with Andrew Fikes, Google Engineering Fellow
- Spanning the Range of Database Requirements in the Cloud
- A collection of Cloud Spanner stories in the Google Cloud - Community Medium publication.
Cloud Spanner Ecosystem
- Visit Cloud Spanner Ecosystem to learn about the collection of open source projects owned-by and developed-for the Cloud Spanner user community.
Podcasts
- Software Engineering Daily Podcast - Google Spanner with Deepti Srivastava
- The ARCHITECHT Show Ep.44 - Google's Deepti Srivastava on multi-region Spanner and case for cloud databases
- Google Cloud Platform Podcast Ep.62 - Cloud Spanner with Deepti Srivastava
Videos
To watch a video, click a hyperlinked title or the icon next to a title.
Customer stories
Articles and case studies
- How Square uses Cloud Spanner for its critical accounting database
- Architecting live NCAA predictions: from archives to insights
- Behind the scenes with the Dragon Ball Legends GCP backend
- Blockchain.com, scaling and saving with Cloud Spanner
- COLOPL: Getting started with PHP and Cloud Spanner
- COLOPL releases an open source Cloud Spanner driver for the Laravel framework
- 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 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 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 to coordinate its growth worldwide
- Picmonkey: Giving customers more value with Google Cloud
- Route4Me: Increasing customer success with fast, reliable vehicle routing
- Whisper: Building the media company of the future
Technical guidance
Blog posts
- Build your own event-sourced system using Cloud Spanner
- 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