Media: articles, videos, and podcasts

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

• Spanning the database world with Google, an interview with Andrew Fikes, Google Engineering Fellow

Videos

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Cloud Spanner overview

Database administration

Choosing a database to ease development

Choosing a database with strong consistency

What differentiates Cloud Spanner

Multi-region capabilities of Cloud Spanner provide industry-leading availability

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
• 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 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

Cloud Spanner & GFT

Lessons learned at Niantic: how to move live systems to a new database platform

Nest cam services migration to Google Cloud Platform

nexuzhealth: See what's new with Cloud Spanner

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

Videos

Cloud OnAir: Cloud Spanner: How it works

Cloud OnAir: Stump the pros: Does Cloud Spanner go faster than the speed of light?

Migrating to Cloud Spanner

Optimizing applications, schemas, and query design on Cloud Spanner