[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-08-07 UTC."],[],[],null,["# Media: articles, videos, and podcasts\n\nThis page provides links to articles, videos, and podcasts related to\nSpanner.\n\nBlog announcements\n------------------\n\n- Visit the official [Google Cloud blog](https://cloud.google.com/blog/search/?query=Spanner&category=article&paginate=25&order=newest) to catch up on Spanner news.\n\nArticles\n--------\n\n- [Spanning the database world with Google, an interview with Andrew Fikes, Google Engineering Fellow](https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/01/15/spanning-the-database-world-with-google/)\n- [Spanning the Range of Database Requirements in the Cloud](http://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/Spanning-the-Range-of-Database-Requirements-in-the-Cloud-134484.aspx)\n- A collection of Spanner stories in the [Google Cloud - Community](https://medium.com/google-cloud/search?q=Cloud%20Spanner) Medium publication.\n\nSpanner ecosystem\n-----------------\n\n- Visit [Spanner Ecosystem](https://cloudspannerecosystem.dev/) to learn about the collection of open source projects owned-by and developed-for the Spanner user community.\n\nPodcasts\n--------\n\n- [Software Engineering Daily Podcast - Google Spanner with Deepti Srivastava](https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/09/10/google-spanner-with-deepti-srivastava)\n- [The ARCHITECHT Show Ep.44 - Google's Deepti Srivastava on multi-region Spanner and case for cloud databases](http://architechtshow.com/ep-44-googles-deepti-srivastava-on-multi-region-spanner-and-case-for-cloud-databases)\n- [Google Cloud Podcast Ep.62 - Spanner with Deepti Srivastava](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l91HGuZXouU)\n\nVideos\n------\n\nTo watch a video, click a hyperlinked title or the icon next to a title.\n\n#### Spanner overview\n\n#### Database administration\n\n#### Choosing a database to ease development\n\n#### Choosing a database with strong consistency\n\n#### What differentiates Spanner\n\n#### Multi-region capabilities of Spanner provide industry-leading availability\n\nCustomer stories\n----------------\n\n### Articles and case studies\n\n- [How Square uses Spanner for its critical accounting database](https://developer.squareup.com/blog/books-an-immutable-double-entry-accounting-database-service/)\n- [Architecting live NCAA predictions: from archives to insights](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/architecting-live-ncaa-predictions-from-archives-to-insights)\n- [Behind the scenes with the Dragon Ball Legends Google Cloud backend](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/behind-the-scenes-with-the-dragon-ball-legends-gcp-backend)\n- [Blockchain.com, scaling and saving with Spanner](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/blockchain-scaling-and-saving-with-cloud-spanner)\n- [COLOPL: Getting started with PHP and Spanner](https://medium.com/google-cloud-jp/php-cloud-spanner-quickstart-f254f9edfd59)\n- [COLOPL releases an open source Spanner driver for the Laravel framework](https://medium.com/google-cloud/colopl-open-sourced-a-cloud-spanner-driver-for-laravel-framework-4ca1db018a3)\n- [How Cloud Storage offers strongly consistent object listing thanks to Spanner](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/how-google-cloud-storage-offers-strongly-consistent-object-listing-thanks-to-spanner)\n- [How Recruit used Spanner to build our email personalization system, from \"Soup\" to nuts](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/how-we-used-cloud-spanner-to-build-our-email-personalization-system-from-soup-to-nuts)\n- [How Shine built a brand new bank on Google Cloud and Spanner](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/how-shine-built-bank-on-gcp-and-cloud-spanner)\n- [How Streak built a graph database on Spanner to wrangle billions of emails](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/how-streak-built-a-graph-database-on-cloud-spanner-to-wrangle-billions-of-emails)\n- [Quizlet tests Spanner - the most sophisticated cloud database](https://quizlet.com/blog/quizlet-cloud-spanner)\n\n### Videos\n\n#### Bringing retail trading to 34 million cryptocurrency wallets\n\n#### Spanner \\& GFT\n\n#### Lessons learned at Niantic: how to move live systems to\na new database platform\n\n#### Nest cam services migration to Google Cloud\n\n#### nexuzhealth: See what's new with Spanner\n\n### Customer innovations\n\n- [AfterShip: Turning to Google Cloud to support continued steep growth](https://cloud.google.com/customers/aftership/)\n- [L.L. Bean: Modernizing the IT architecture](https://cloud.google.com/customers/l-l-bean/)\n- [Marketo: Multi-Region support in Spanner](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/with-multi-region-support-in-cloud-spanner-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too)\n- [Mixpanel: Scalable, high-performance product analytics](https://cloud.google.com/customers/mixpanel/)\n- [Maxwell MRI: Revolutionizing healthcare delivery with AI on Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/customers/maxwell-mri/)\n- [MWM: Using Google Cloud to coordinate its growth worldwide](https://cloud.google.com/customers/mwm/)\n- [Picmonkey: Giving customers more value with Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/customers/picmonkey/)\n- [Route4Me: Increasing customer success with fast, reliable vehicle routing](https://cloud.google.com/customers/route4me/)\n- [Whisper: Building the media company of the future](https://cloud.google.com/customers/whisper/)\n\nTechnical guidance\n------------------\n\n### Blog posts\n\n- [Build your own event-sourced system using Spanner](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/build-your-own-event-sourced-system-using-cloud-spanner)\n- [From NoSQL to new SQL: How Spanner became a global, mission-critical database](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/from-nosql-to-new-sql-how-spanner-became-a-global-mission-critical-database)\n- [Inside Spanner and the CAP Theorem](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/inside-cloud-spanner-and-the-cap-theorem)\n- [Sharding of timestamp-ordered data in Spanner](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/sharding-of-timestamp-ordered-data-in-cloud-spanner)\n- [What DBAs need to know about Spanner, part 1: keys and indexes](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/what-dbas-need-to-know-about-cloud-spanner-part-1-keys-and-indexes)\n- [Why you should pick strong consistency, whenever possible](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/why-you-should-pick-strong-consistency-whenever-possible)\n\n### Videos\n\n#### Cloud OnAir: Spanner: How it works\n\n#### Cloud OnAir: Stump the pros: Does Spanner go\nfaster than the speed of light?\n\n#### Migrating to Spanner\n\n#### Migrating to Spanner: Best practices\n\n#### Spanner internals part 1: What makes Spanner tick?\n\n#### Spanner internals part 2: Global metadata and scalable data backend\n\n#### Optimizing applications, schemas, and query design on\nSpanner"]]
