Managing a large fleet of Cloud SQL instances and ensuring they remain resilient and performant has been a journey filled with valuable lessons. So I’ve written a three-part blog series to share with other technical practitioners and strategists some of the best practices our team developed in the process. Those lessons include:
- Monitoring and Consistent Configuration
 - Design Choices and Optimizations
 - Automated Scaling, Upgrades, and Lessons Learned from Incidents (available February 2025)