On-demand activities

Find the right on-demand learning activities for you. Labs are short learning activities that teach you a specific lesson by giving you direct, temporary, hands-on access to real cloud resources. Courses are longer activities, consisting of several modules made of videos, documents, hands-on labs and quizzes. Finally, quests are similar, but are usually shorter and contain only labs.

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    Cloud Spanner: Qwik Start

    This lab shows how to perform basic operations in Cloud Spanner using the Google Cloud Platform Console. Watch the short video Get a Highly Consistent, Scalable Database Service with Cloud Spanner.

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    Cloud Spanner - Database Fundamentals

    In this lab, you perform basic administrative tasks within a Cloud Spanner instance.

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    Deploying Spanner Applications with Cloud Functions and Cloud Run

    In this lab, you write applications that utilize Spanner databases, and deploy them to both Cloud Functions and Cloud Run. You also install, configure, and enable the Spanner emulator for use in development environments.

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    Getting Started with Gaming on Cloud Spanner

    In this lab, you will implement a player profile service and a game matchmaking service to work with Cloud Spanner.

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    Cloud Spanner - Defining Schemas and Understanding Query Plans

    In this lab, you review schema related features of Cloud Spanner and apply those to a Banking Operations database. You also review the methods and rules by which Cloud Spanner creates query plans.

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    Create and Manage Cloud Spanner Instances: Challenge Lab

    In this challenge lab, you demonstrate your knowledge of Cloud Spanner that you learned from the Create and Manage Cloud Spanner Instances course.

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    Cloud Spanner - Loading Data and Performing Backups

    In this lab, you explore various ways to load data into Cloud Spanner as well as perform a backup of your database.

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    Reconciling Account Data with Cloud Spanner Change Streams

    Learn how to perform financial account reconciliation tasks using Cloud Spanner, Dataflow, and BigQuery.

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    Deploy a Modern Web App connected to a Cloud Spanner Instance

    In this lab, you build and deploy a Node.js application connected to a Cloud Spanner instance. The Node.js application is a stock price visualization tool named OmegaTrade. The OmegaTrade application stores stock prices in Cloud Spanner and renders visualizations using Google Charts.

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    Online Data Migration to Cloud Spanner using Striim

    In this lab you will learn how to migrate a Cloud SQL for MySQL database to Cloud Spanner using Google Cloud's data migration partner, Striim.