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, 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 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
- Spanning the database world with Google, an interview with Andrew Fikes, Google Engineering Fellow
- Spanning the Range of Database Requirements in the Cloud
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
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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