Gmail's Spanner Revolution: How Planet-Scale Infrastructure Transformed Silently

Dive into a 14-minute video exploring Google's monumental migration of Gmail to Spanner. Join Developer Advocate Priyanka Vergadia and Google Workspace Engineering Manager Sudev Bohra as they unveil the behind-the-scenes process of silently moving billions of users, trillions of emails, and exabytes of data. Discover the lifecycle of an email, the origins of the migration journey, and a detailed walkthrough of the migration stages. Learn about the meticulous validation and health checks implemented, the challenges faced with "Spannacles" (Spanner + Barnacles), and key lessons from this massive infrastructure transformation. Gain valuable insights into cloud migrations, database management, and large-scale infrastructure changes in this informative Google Cloud Tech presentation.

- Introduction to Gmail's Planet-Scale Migration to Spanner
- High-level Life of an Email
- The Migration Journey: The Beginnings
- The Migration Stages: A Step-by-step Walkthrough
- Handling with Utmost Care: Validation and Health Checks
- The Gotchas: Spanner + Barnacles = “Spannacles”
- Summarizing Lessons from Gmail's Exabyte-scale Transformation