October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 5m
English
Each cluster in a production instance has a minimum of three nodes. Nodes are, as you may expect, compute resources that Bigtable will use to manage our data. Bigtable will try to distribute read and writes evenly across all nodes and also store an equal amount of data on each node. If a Bigtable cluster becomes overloaded, we can add more nodes to improve its performance. Equally, we can scale down and remove nodes.
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