Learn how Google silently migrated billions of users, trillions of emails, and exabytes of data to Spanner – without anyone noticing!
Join Developer Advocate Priyanka Vergadia as she sits down with Google Workspace Engineering Manager Sudev Bohra, whose team successfully completed one of the largest data migrations on the planet. Discover, stage by stage, how Google engineers harnessed the power of Spanner to revolutionize Gmail's infrastructure. Sudev gives a behind-the-scenes look at the innovations, challenges, and lessons behind this carefully orchestrated, zero-downtime migration that has shaped and continues to shape the future of Gmail for all its users.
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This video is a must-watch for anyone interested in cloud migrations, database management, or infrastructure transformations.
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction to Gmail's Planet-Scale Migration to Spanner
1:21 - High-level Life of an Email
3:09 - The Migration Journey: The Beginnings
5:03 - The Migration Stages: A Step-by-step Walkthrough
8:15 - Handling with Utmost Care: Validation and Health Checks
11:53 - The Gotchas: Spanner + Barnacles = “Spannacles”
13:33 - Summarizing Lessons from Gmail's Exabyte-scale Transformation
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