Google Cloud Spanner: Design, Scale & Operate Databases

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.