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.
Understanding Cloud Spanner
Understanding Cloud Spanner
Instructor: Google Cloud Training
Access provided by University of Toronto
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
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.
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Assessments
6 assignments
Taught in English
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