Google Cloud Spanner: Design, Scale & Operate Databases

Overview

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Build practical skills to design, scale, and operate globally distributed databases using Google Cloud Spanner. This course introduces Cloud Spanner fundamentals, including its distributed architecture, strong consistency, and ability to support mission-critical applications at global scale. You will learn how to analyze database capacity and usage patterns, design highly available and resilient database architectures, and implement secure connectivity and access management strategies. The course also covers monitoring, troubleshooting, and backup and recovery techniques to ensure operational reliability. In addition, you will explore how to optimize database cost and performance, automate database tasks, and design and implement data migration and replication strategies. Through hands-on demonstrations, you will evaluate backup and recovery processes, monitor database metrics, configure read replicas, and implement scaling strategies. By the end of this course, you will be able to design, deploy, and manage production-ready Cloud Spanner databases using Google Cloud best practices. Who should take this course? Cloud engineers, database administrators, DevOps professionals, solution architects, and developers working with scalable and distributed database systems.

Syllabus

Cloud Spanner: Database Architecture and Reliability on Google Cloud

Welcome to Week 1 of the course. Week 1 introduces the foundational concepts required to design reliable database architectures using Cloud Spanner. You will learn how to analyze database capacity requirements, evaluate application connectivity options, and determine the most appropriate database solutions for different workloads on Google Cloud. This module also explores high availability and disaster recovery strategies, database monitoring and troubleshooting techniques, and designing backup and recovery solutions to protect mission-critical data. By the end of this week, you will understand how to design reliable and resilient Cloud Spanner database architectures that support enterprise workloads.

Cloud Spanner: Database Optimization and Scalability on Google Cloud

Welcome to Week 2 of the course. Week 2 focuses on optimizing database performance, automating database operations, and deploying scalable database architectures using Cloud Spanner. You will learn how to optimize database cost and performance, automate operational database tasks, and implement data migration and replication strategies when moving workloads to Google Cloud. This module also includes practical demonstrations that show how to manage Cloud Spanner environments, including evaluating backup and recovery operations, monitoring database metrics, configuring read replicas, and implementing scaling strategies. By the end of this week, you will be able to deploy scalable and highly available Cloud Spanner databases and optimize them for enterprise-scale workloads.