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Data Engineering with Google Cloud Platform

By : Adi Wijaya
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Book Image

Data Engineering with Google Cloud Platform

3 (1)
By: Adi Wijaya

Overview of this book

With this book, you'll understand how the highly scalable Google Cloud Platform (GCP) enables data engineers to create end-to-end data pipelines right from storing and processing data and workflow orchestration to presenting data through visualization dashboards. Starting with a quick overview of the fundamental concepts of data engineering, you'll learn the various responsibilities of a data engineer and how GCP plays a vital role in fulfilling those responsibilities. As you progress through the chapters, you'll be able to leverage GCP products to build a sample data warehouse using Cloud Storage and BigQuery and a data lake using Dataproc. The book gradually takes you through operations such as data ingestion, data cleansing, transformation, and integrating data with other sources. You'll learn how to design IAM for data governance, deploy ML pipelines with the Vertex AI, leverage pre-built GCP models as a service, and visualize data with Google Data Studio to build compelling reports. Finally, you'll find tips on how to boost your career as a data engineer, take the Professional Data Engineer certification exam, and get ready to become an expert in data engineering with GCP. By the end of this data engineering book, you'll have developed the skills to perform core data engineering tasks and build efficient ETL data pipelines with GCP.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Data Engineering with GCP
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Section 2: Building Solutions with GCP Components
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Section 3: Key Strategies for Architecting Top-Notch Data Pipelines

Practicing the concept of IaC using Terraform

IaC is a concept and approach to managing GCP resources using code. The term infrastructure here means all GCP resources such as BigQuery datasets, GCS buckets, IAM, and all other resources that we've learned about throughout the book. 

When we practice all the exercises, we create resources using the GCP console user interface (UI) or the gcloud command. After learning how projects and resources can be very much within an organization, imagine someone needs to do that manually one by one using the UI. With an IaC approach, we will use code to provision the resources. There are many software options for doing this, and one of the most commonly used is Terraform.

Terraform is an open source IaC software tool. You, as the developer, declare which resources your organization needs in the Terraform scripts. The scripts can be run on any machine, from your local laptop, Cloud Shell, or VM. Note that you don't need to install...