Spanner dynamic channel pooling for Go and Java clients is GA

GAAug 10, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Dynamic channel pooling for gRPC channels prevents issues from under- or over-provisioned channels and reduces configuration overhead in the Go and Java client libraries. It is disabled by default.

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