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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By : Sanket Thodge
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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By: Sanket Thodge

Overview of this book

With the ongoing data explosion, more and more organizations all over the world are slowly migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. These cloud platforms also provide their distinct analytics services to help you get faster insights from your data. This book will give you an introduction to the concept of analytics on the cloud, and the different cloud services popularly used for processing and analyzing data. If you’re planning to adopt the cloud analytics model for your business, this book will help you understand the design and business considerations to be kept in mind, and choose the best tools and alternatives for analytics, based on your requirements. The chapters in this book will take you through the 70+ services available in Google Cloud Platform and their implementation for practical purposes. From ingestion to processing your data, this book contains best practices on building an end-to-end analytics pipeline on the cloud by leveraging popular concepts such as machine learning and deep learning. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of cloud analytics as a concept as well as a practical know-how of its implementation
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Understanding cloud categories


Now, as we have seen the 11 broad categories of the services in GCP, we will try to understand each of them. The following table specifies the different features of these categories:

Cloud category

Features

Compute

  • High-performance, scalable VMs
  • Build apps, scale automatically
  • Automated container management
  • Private docker container images
  • Serverless applications on Google's infrastructure

Storage and databases

  • Managed databases
  • Object storage
  • Archival

Networking

  • Worldwide autoscaling and load balancing
  • Manage networking for your resources
  • Highly available global DNS network
  • Fast, high availability interconnect
  • Content delivery network

Big data

  • Analytics data warehouse
  • Batch and stream data processing
  • Managed Hadoop and Spark
  • Powerful data exploration
  • Tell great data stories to support better business decisions
  • Intelligent data preparation
  • Scalable event ingestion and messaging middleware

Data transfer

  • Online transfer
  • Cloud storage transfer service
  • Transfer appliance beta
  • BigQuery data transfer...