This foundational course introduces learners to Google Cloud Spanner, the fully managed, mission-critical relational database. Designed primarily for application developers, cloud architects, and database administrators, this course covers the core tenets of Spanner: global consistency, relational schema design, and horizontal scalability. The curriculum is enriched with modern operational context, exploring how Spanner editions optimize costs, how the PostgreSQL interface broadens ecosystem compatibility, and how multi-model capabilities eliminate the need for complex data silos.
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.