Understanding Cloud Spanner

Understanding Cloud Spanner

Instructor: Google Cloud Training

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

No prior experience required

6 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

No prior experience required

6 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Discuss Spanner's core architecture and use cases.
Provision a Spanner instance, selecting the appropriate edition, instance configuration, and SQL dialect to meet defined workload requirements.
Design an optimized, horizontally scalable relational schema utilizing primary key strategies to prevent hotspots.
Execute data ingestion, queries, implement security configurations, and define observability monitoring.

Skills you'll gain

Tools you'll learn

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Assessments

4 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 6 modules in this course

This foundational course introduces learners to Google Cloud Spanner, the fully managed, mission-critical relational database. Designed primarily for application developers, cloud architects, and database administrators, this course covers the core tenets of Spanner: global consistency, relational schema design, and horizontal scalability. The curriculum is enriched with modern operational context, exploring how Spanner editions optimize costs, how the PostgreSQL interface broadens ecosystem compatibility, and how multi-model capabilities eliminate the need for complex data silos.

Sets the stage for the course. It introduces the overarching business challenge (Cymbal's logistics platform), clearly states the required prerequisites, and outlines the modules ahead to prepare learners for the instructional journey.

What's included

1 plugin

Establish what Spanner is. Identify the fundamental problem of scaling relational databases and Spanner's capabilities to overcome the challenges. Describe the editions and modern multi-model features which allow cost optimization.

What's included

1 assignment2 plugins

Express how Spanner utilizes compute/storage disaggregation for scalability, Paxos and TruTime for external consistency, and dialect choices (GoogleSQL vs PostgreSQL) for developer flexibility.

What's included

1 assignment1 app item4 plugins

1 assignmentTotal 10 minutes

Quiz - 210 minutes

1 app itemTotal 60 minutes

Hands-on lab: Creating Spanner Instances and Databases (Console)60 minutes

4 pluginsTotal 60 minutes

Decoupled architecture, TrueTime, and Paxos15 minutes
Database dialects: GoogleSQL vs PostgreSQL15 minutes
Hands-on lab introduction: Creating Spanner Instances and Databases (Console)15 minutes
Accessing and completing labs15 minutes

Discuss Spanner's distributed storage in splits. Express how this influences schema design and primary key choice. Explain and use different methods for loading data.

What's included

1 assignment1 app item3 plugins

Provides a high-level overview of tools for ongoing monitoring and fine grained access control to apply least-privilege access

What's included

1 assignment1 app item3 plugins

Consolidates the learning journey, summarizing the relational scale problem, Spanner's disaggregated architecture, schema design best practices, and the integration of multi-model/Data Boost capabilities.