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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions
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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

by Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS
March 2019
Beginner to intermediate
778 pages
34h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Scaling clusters

Bigtable was designed to be easy to scale. Scaling up can be achieved by simply adding new nodes to the cluster. This can be done using gcloud with the following command:

gcloud beta bigtable clusters update <CLUSTER_ID> \ --instance=<INSTANCE_ID> \ --num-nodes=<NUM_NODES>

Note that due to the way Bigtable scales up and rebalences, it may take up to 20 minutes for performance increases to take effect. For this reason, it's generally a good idea to scale production workloads preemptively where possible. Also note that scaling the number of nodes in a cluster will not fix certain performance issues caused by bad schema design.

Bigtable clusters can also be scaled down at any time with the same command. This does not introduce ...

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