A deep dive into Spanner’s query optimizer — Campbell Fraser, Vlad Lifliand @ Google Cloud Blog

A good introduction to how the query optimizer works on a simple example. In this article, you will find what types of optimizations are used in Spanner, what optimizer statistics are collected, and how to deal with different optimizer versions.

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Data governance building blocks on Google Cloud for financial services — Daryus Medora, Oscar Pulido @ Google Cloud blog

This article contains a list of services on GCP plus open source and third party technologies you may want to use as a building blocks for your data government full cycle. Additionally, it contains a basic architecture for data government implementation. If you work with GCP and in the very beginning of your data journey, I recommend you to take a look on this article to get a good overview of the tech stack.

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