Understanding Cloud Spanner

Overview

6-week cohort with live MIT Faculty sessions. Learn to scale AI beyond the pilot stage.

Understanding Cloud Spanner is a course that teaches you how to build, manage, and integrate Cloud Spanner databases on Google Cloud.

Designed for those looking to improve relational databases at scale, this course develops practical knowledge of Cloud Spanner’s capabilities, including its ability to deliver high availability within a single database. You’ll also examine how Spanner compares to other database solutions and where it fits across different application needs.

This course explores the key fundamentals of Cloud Spanner, including:

Creating and managing databases using the command-line interface (CLI), Terraform, Python API, and the Google Cloud console
Querying and interacting with data through the Cloud Spanner Application Programming Interface
Optimizing relational schemas for Spanner’s distributed model and integrating it into existing applications

Syllabus

Build scalable, managed, relational databases by using Cloud Spanner.
Create and manage Cloud Spanner databases by using the CLI, Terraform, Python API, and the Google Cloud console.
Program and run queries and transactions by using the Cloud Spanner API.
Integrate Cloud Spanner with applications.