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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

Overviewing the Google Cloud certification

Let's start this final chapter by talking about the Google Cloud certification. In my opinion, taking the certification is important. I highly recommend that you take it – not only to get the certificates on paper but also to validate how much you know about the topics that are needed to be a Google Cloud professional. The experience that you get while preparing for the certification is the most important part of your journey. Regardless of whether you pass or fail the exam, I believe that you will get new knowledge along the way.

Google Cloud provides a list of official certifications that you can use to validate your expertise with the Google Cloud technology. There are three main categories available:

  • Foundational
  • Associate
  • Professional

Foundational is intended for anyone with no hands-on experience with Google Cloud technology. Associate is recommended for anyone who has 6+ months of Google Cloud...