Scaling Your Google Cloud SQL Database: From Hundreds to Millions of Users

Mohamed Dhaoui
11 min readNov 6, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, scaling a database to accommodate user growth is not merely a luxury — it’s a necessity. As businesses and applications expand, so does the demand on their databases. Initially, serving hundreds of users might seem manageable, but the real challenge arises when that number quickly swells into the millions.

Google Cloud SQL, a fully-managed database service, offers an array of powerful tools to help you meet the ever-increasing demands of your user base. This article will…

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Mohamed Dhaoui

Lead Data engineer and Data science practitioner ! Interested in data science and software development topics. GCP 5x certified and Go fan.