This page provides links to articles, videos, and podcasts related to Spanner.
Blog announcements
- Visit the official Google Cloud blog to catch up on Spanner news.
Articles
- Spanning the database world with Google, an interview with Andrew Fikes, Google Engineering Fellow
- A collection of Spanner stories in the Google Cloud - Community Medium publication.
Spanner ecosystem
- Visit Spanner Ecosystem to learn about the collection of open source projects owned-by and developed-for the Spanner user community.
Podcasts
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 Spanner for its critical accounting database
- Behind the scenes with the Dragon Ball Legends Google Cloud backend
- Blockchain.com, scaling and saving with Spanner
- COLOPL: Getting started with PHP and Spanner
- COLOPL releases an open source Spanner driver for the Laravel framework
- How Cloud Storage offers strongly consistent object listing thanks to Spanner
- How Recruit used Spanner to build our email personalization system, from "Soup" to nuts
- How Shine built a brand new bank on Google Cloud and Spanner
- How Streak built a graph database on Spanner to wrangle billions of emails
- Quizlet tests 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 Spanner
- Mixpanel: Scalable, high-performance product analytics
- Maxwell MRI: Revolutionizing healthcare delivery with AI on Google Cloud
- 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 Spanner
- From NoSQL to new SQL: How Spanner became a global, mission-critical database
- Inside Spanner and the CAP Theorem
- Sharding of timestamp-ordered data in Spanner
- What DBAs need to know about Spanner, part 1: keys and indexes
- Why you should pick strong consistency, whenever possible