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Google Cloud Spanner: Design, Scale & Operate Databases

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Google Cloud Spanner: Design, Scale & Operate Databases

This course is part of Exam Prep: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer Specialization

Instructor: Whizlabs Instructor

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2 modules

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7 hours to complete

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2 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

7 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Design globally scalable, highly available, and strongly consistent database architectures using Cloud Spanner
Optimize database performance, cost, and reliability in distributed cloud environments
Deploy, manage, and scale Cloud Spanner databases for real-world enterprise applications

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There are 2 modules in this course

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.

Module details

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.

What's included

9 videos3 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt

9 videosTotal 65 minutes

Analyse Relevant Variables To Perform Database Capacity And Usage Planning8 minutes
Evaluate Database High Availability And Disaster Recovery Options8 minutes
Determine How Applications Will Connect To The Database10 minutes
Evaluate Appropriate Database Solutions on Google Cloud6 minutes
Determine Database Connectivity And Access Management Considerations8 minutes
Configure Database Monitoring and Troubleshooting Options - Part 17 minutes
Configure Database Monitoring and Troubleshooting Options - Part 27 minutes
Design Database Backup and Recovery Solutions - Part 15 minutes
Design Database Backup and Recovery Solutions - Part 27 minutes

3 readingsTotal 55 minutes

Specialization Course Introduction20 minutes
Welcome to the Course20 minutes
Getting Started with Cloud SQL on Google Cloud - Course Overview15 minutes

2 assignmentsTotal 75 minutes

Cloud Spanner: Database Architecture and Reliability on Google Cloud - Graded Assessment40 minutes
Designing and Managing Cloud SQL Solutions - Practice Assessment35 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 10 minutes

Meet & Greet10 minutes

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.

What's included

9 videos2 readings2 assignments

9 videosTotal 57 minutes

Optimize Database Cost and Performance in Google Cloud - Part 17 minutes
Optimize Database Cost and Performance in Google Cloud - Part 27 minutes
Determine Solutions To Automate Database Tasks9 minutes
Design And Implement Data Migration and Replication8 minutes
Deploy Scalable And Highly Available Databases in Google Cloud5 minutes
Demo: Evaluate Backup and Recovery in Cloud Spanner6 minutes
Demo: Monitoring Database metrics in Cloud Spanner5 minutes
Demo: Read Replicas in Cloud Spanner4 minutes
Demo: Scaling in Cloud Spanner7 minutes

2 readingsTotal 35 minutes

Deploying and Managing Cloud SQL on Google Cloud - Overview15 minutes
Conclusion, What's Next, Job Roles, and Best Practices20 minutes

2 assignmentsTotal 100 minutes

Cloud Spanner: Database Optimization and Scalability on Google Cloud - Graded Assessment60 minutes
Database Operations and Performance Optimization- Practice Assessment40 minutes