#212 Issue
Oct. 19, 2020
Tag: Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner Oct. 19, 2020Scaling Cloud Spanner Instances - Best practices for scaling up and down Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Sept. 14, 2020Analyze running queries in Cloud Spanner to help diagnose performance issues - This article discusses how the Oldest Active Queries complements other introspection tools of Spanner and helps users troubleshoot system performance issues while they are ongoing.
Cloud Spanner Aug. 24, 2020Randomized Testing of Cloud Spanner - How randomized testing is used to keep high quality for Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Aug. 24, 20203 reasons to consider Cloud Spanner for your next project - Learn about the cloud database Spanner, which brings massive scale and strong consistency to your applications. Here’s why to consider all-purpose Spanner.
Cloud Bigtable Cloud Spanner Official Blog Aug. 24, 2020The world’s unpredictable, your databases shouldn’t add to it - Check out what’s new in databases and data management at Google Cloud, including news on Spanner local emulator and Bigtable managed backups.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Aug. 10, 2020New multi-region configurations for Spanner in Asia and Europe - New Cloud Spanner database multi-regions in Asia and Europe bring 5 9s of availability to users for scalability and high availability.
Cloud Spanner July 20, 2020Cloud Spanner: Read Statistics - Spanner read statistics is a new feature that lets you run SQL queries to retrieve read statistics for your database during one-, 10-, and 60-minute intervals. These read statistics allow you to see the most common and most resource-consuming reads executed on your database.
Cloud Spanner July 20, 2020Zero downtime database migration and replication to and from Cloud Spanner - Cloud Spanner migration overview.
Cloud Spanner July 6, 2020Spanner’s SQL Story - A description of evolution of SQL support for Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner June 29, 2020DML and Mutations - a tale of two data altering techniques in Cloud Spanner - In the article are described two APIs in Cloud Spanner that you can use to modify data: Data Manipulation Language (DML) and Mutations.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog June 29, 2020Increase visibility into Cloud Spanner performance with transaction stats - Cloud Spanner now offers transaction statistics, so you can run SQL queries to retrieve these stats for your database over several time periods.
Cloud Functions Cloud Scheduler Cloud Spanner June 1, 2020Create Cloud Spanner Scheduled Backups - This tutorial shows how to use the Scheduled Backups tool to configure Cloud Scheduler for creating Cloud Spanner backups on a regular basis.
Advanced Cloud Spanner May 25, 2020How Does Spanner Avoid Single Point of Failures in Writes? - Explanation of how Cloud Spanner provides both high availability and high consistency in writes.
Cloud Spanner May 18, 2020Launch checklist for Cloud Spanner - This launch checklist provides a list of considerations that need to be made prior to launching a production application on Cloud Spanner. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but serves to highlight areas that can have a large impact on production performance.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog April 27, 2020Back up on demand, emulate and develop with ease — new Spanner features - Cloud database service Spanner adds backup-restore feature plus new developer features, like local emulator, query optimizer versioning, and more.
Cloud Spanner Go April 20, 2020Google Cloud Spanner driver for Go - Google Cloud Spanner driver for database/sql.
Cloud Spanner Google Kubernetes Engine April 20, 2020Spanning the Globe without Google Spanner - The article explains how to set up YugabyteDB (a database inspired by Spanner) on GKE cluster.
Cloud Spanner April 13, 2020Cloud Spanner Emulator - A local, in-memory, high-fidelity emulator of the Cloud Spanner service.
Cloud Spanner March 23, 2020spannerz, a tool for Cloud Spanner - spannerz adds an HTTP handler to your binary to report query plans from Google Cloud Spanner clients. You can use spannerz as a standalone binary too.
Cloud Spanner Feb. 10, 2020Internals of Google Cloud Spanner - Overview of Google Cloud Spanner internals and how the Cloud Spanner works with regional and multi-regional settings.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Serverless Nov. 11, 2019Opening the door to more dev tools for Cloud Spanner - Learn how to integrate a graphical database development tool with cloud databases like Cloud Spanner with the JDBC driver.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Sept. 30, 2019Cloud Spanner amps up SLA, adds CSV support, and sharpens monitoring details - Google’s Cloud Spanner database expands its availability SLA to all instances, and adds CSV support, more detailed monitoring data, and more features.
Cloud Spanner Data Analytics Aug. 19, 2019How to connect Tableau to Google Cloud Spanner - The article describes how to connect Tableau with Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner GCP Experience Official Blog July 15, 2019Blockchain.com, scaling and saving with Cloud Spanner - Cryptocurrency company Blockchain uses Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to scale its products and serve millions of users securely.
AWS Cloud Spanner NoSQL July 1, 2019Database Migration : Migrating from DynamoDB to Google Cloud Spanner (Part 1) - The article goes through the process of migrating from DynamoDB to Cloud Spanner.
AWS Cloud Spanner NoSQL July 1, 2019Database Migration : Migrating from DynamoDB to Google Cloud Spanner (Part 2) - Second article related to migration from DynamoDB to Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner Official Blog June 3, 2019Build your own event-sourced system using Cloud Spanner - Using event-sourced systems can help solve complex application development problems. Here’s how to deploy one using Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Feb. 25, 2019Impossible read and write isolation phenomena with Cloud Spanner - How the 6 transaction isolation phenomenon aren’t allowed in Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner PHP Feb. 25, 2019Colopl open sourced a Cloud Spanner driver for Laravel framework - Open source PHP driver for Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner Jan. 28, 2019Spanning The Database World With Google - Interview with Andrew Fikes (Google) about Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Jan. 14, 2019Rethinking commercial software delivery with Cloud Spanner and serverless - Serverless computing and globally distributed databases like Spanner can drive down operational costs and enable niche vendors to enter the market.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Dec. 24, 2018Cloud Spanner adds enhanced query introspection, new regions, and new multi-region configurations - Few enhancements for Cloud Spanner like Query introspection, New multi-region configurations and new regions.
Cloud Spanner GCP Experience Official Blog Nov. 5, 2018How Streak built a graph database on Cloud Spanner to wrangle billions of emails - Streak is a customer relationship management (CRM) tool built directly into Gmail. Learn how Streak built a graph database on Cloud Spanner to wrangle billions of emails.
Cloud Spanner Nov. 5, 2018Cloud Spanner Connector for Apache Spark - Cloud Spanner Connector for Apache Spark is a library to support Apache Spark to access Cloud Spanner as an external data source or sink.
Cloud Spanner Oct. 22, 2018spanner-cli, the Cloud Spanner command line interface - Interactive command line tool for controlling Spanner databases.
Cloud Bigtable Cloud Spanner Oct. 15, 2018Develop and deploy apps more easily with Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable updates - The general availability of two important new features for two of GCP's cloud-native database offerings: Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable.
Cloud Spanner Sept. 3, 2018Search on Google Cloud Platform — Spanner - Implement Search on Google Cloud Platform using Spanner.
BigQuery Cloud Spanner Cloud SQL Official Blog July 30, 2018On GCP, your database your way - New database features to get the most out of your databases for your business.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog July 23, 2018Cloud Spanner adds import/export functionality to ease data movement - You can now import and export data easily in the Cloud Spanner Console.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog June 11, 2018What DBAs need to know about Cloud Spanner, part 1: Keys and indexes - Key differences that DBAs need to know when moving from traditional RDBMS to Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog May 21, 2018Sharding of timestamp-ordered data in Cloud Spanner - How to efficiently insert and retrieve records in Cloud Spanner with timestamp ordering.
Cloud Spanner April 30, 2018Cloud Spanner — Maximizing data load throughput - Strategies for maximizing write throughput to Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner April 30, 2018Cloud OnAir: Cloud Spanner: How It Works - How Cloud Spanner operates and how it guarantees external consistency on reads and writes.
Cloud Bigtable Cloud Spanner Cloud SQL April 30, 2018Accelerating innovation for cloud-native managed databases - Cloud database improvements for Cloud Spanner, Bigtable, Redis and PostgreSQL.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog April 2, 2018How we used Cloud Spanner to build our email personalization system—from “Soup” to nuts - Tokyo-based Recruit Technologies Co., Ltd., migrated their email marketing platform to Cloud Spanner. This article explores the key aspects of migration and takeaways.
BigQuery Cloud Spanner Dataflow Google Kubernetes Engine Official Blog April 2, 2018Architecting live NCAA predictions: from archives to insights - Article explores architecting NCAA real-time predictions, achieved through a few months of data ingestion, ETL, analysis, and modeling.
Cloud Spanner April 2, 2018Cloud Spanner — Choosing the right primary keys - This article covers how to choose the right primary keys to enable scalable data writes in Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner GCP Experience March 26, 2018The new Dragon Ball game is powered by Google’s cloud
Beginner Cloud Spanner Tutorial March 12, 2018First Steps with Google Cloud Spanner - Learn basics of Google Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner March 5, 2018Announcing Google Cloud Spanner as a Vault storage backend - Cloud Spanner can be used now as a storage backend for HashiCorp Vault.
Business Cloud Spanner GCP Experience Feb. 26, 2018Making the jump to Google Cloud Spanner - Transition from Oracle to Google Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner Cloud Storage Official Blog Feb. 26, 2018How Google Cloud Storage offers strongly consistent object listing thanks to Spanner - Secret behind the strong list consistency offered by Google Cloud Storage.
Cloud Spanner Jan. 29, 2018Practical Tradeoffs in Google Cloud Spanner, Azure Cosmos DB and YugaByte DB - Deep dive on practical tradeoffs of modern cloud-native databases such as Google Cloud Spanner, Azure Cosmos DB and YugaByte DB
Cloud Spanner Jan. 15, 2018Why you should pick strong consistency, whenever possible - This article explains features of Cloud Spanner like unique combination of external, strong consistency, relational semantics, high availability and horizontal scaling.
Cloud Spanner Nov. 20, 2017With Multi-Region support in Cloud Spanner, have your cake and eat it too - Spanner Multi Regional option is now Generally Available. Strong global consistency across continents is possible.
Cloud Spanner Nov. 20, 2017The Architext Show Podcast - Google's Deepti Srivastava on multi-region Spanner and case for cloud databases
Cloud Spanner Oct. 30, 2017Google Cloud Spanner: Going global with relational database - GDG DevFest Ukraine 2017
Cloud Spanner Oct. 2, 2017How we built a brand new bank on GCP and Cloud Spanner: Shine - Description of creating bank in cloud.
Business Cloud Spanner Sept. 11, 2017Google Cloud Spanner: The next big transformation in financial services? - Why Google Cloud Spanner could be suitable cloud database for financial institutions.
Cloud Spanner July 24, 2017How to get started with Cloud Spanner in 5 minutes - How to create Google Cloud Spanner instance in few lines of shell
Cloud Spanner July 10, 2017Google's Cloud Spanner: how does it stack up?
Cloud Spanner June 26, 2017Cloud database technology can no longer be ignored in financial services - Article about how Google Cloud Platform offers products and services which can be used by financial institutions
Cloud Spanner June 26, 2017Build an Application at Google Scale with Spanner, Cloud Foundry, and Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Spanner June 4, 2017From NoSQL to new SQL: How Spanner became a global, mission-critical database - Story of how Spanner was developed
Cloud Spanner May 22, 2017Cloud Spanner is now production-ready; let the migrations begin!
Cloud Spanner May 22, 2017Cloud Spanner 101: Google's Mission-Critical Relational Database
Cloud Natural Language API Cloud Spanner May 8, 2017Google Cloud Natural Language API launches new features and Cloud Spanner graduating to GA - Cloud Natural Language API now supports 9 languages
Cloud Spanner April 10, 2017Spanner vs. Calvin: distributed consistency at scale - Design comparison for Spaner and Calving - geographically replicated, ACID, transactional database systems
Cloud Spanner April 3, 2017Basic Cloud Spanner Setup for a Java App Engine Project
Cloud Spanner March 13, 2017Google Cloud Spanner: our first impressions - Guys from company OpenCredo share their insights regarding Spanner
Cloud Spanner Feb. 27, 2017Cloud Spanner Feb. 27, 2017GCP podcast #62 - Cloud Spanner with Deepti Srivastava
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