April 2018
Beginner to intermediate
282 pages
9h 53m
English
The Master process manages the Cloud Bigtable zone. The same master also manages the workload and data volume within the clusters.
The master has the authority to split larger tablets (or more utilized tablets) in half, and merges smaller tablets (or less-accessed tablets) while redistributing them between the nodes.
To get the best write performance, it is important to distribute writes as evenly as possible across nodes.