Cloud Spanner is Google's globally distributed relational database, used here for schemas that need strong consistency at scale. Articles cover Spanner schema design, interleaved tables, migration tooling in Go, and the performance patterns specific to Spanner's TrueTime-based architecture.
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Notes from contributing to Google's open-source Spanner Migration Tool (HarbourBridge). Where to start reading the codebase, where the load-bearing logic lives, and the parts that look simple but aren't.
Spanner partitions by primary-key range. A monotonically-increasing PK like a timestamp or UUID-v1 funnels all writes to one server. The fix changes everything from your sequence strategy to your tenant model.
Interleaving a child table into its parent co-locates the rows for fast joins. It also tightens coupling in ways that bite you on the next schema migration. A practitioner's decision matrix.
A bulk migration takes hours; the application can't be offline that long. CDC keeps the source and destination in sync while the bulk runs, and a quick cutover swaps traffic. The handoff between bulk and CDC is where most migrations go wrong.
All posts on this site are written by Pratik Dhanave, an Agentic AI Architect with 7+ years building production distributed systems, multi-agent AI platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. About the author → Each article includes working code, architecture diagrams, and references to the specific frameworks and standards discussed. Browse all posts or explore related topics using the tag cloud above.