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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)
1
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

Getting started with Google Cloud Platform

OK, let's start! Let's take the first step and try GCP. 

Chances are you already registered or have created your own project in GCP before reading this book. But in case you haven't, these steps are mandatory to follow:

  1. Access the GCP console from this link from any browser: http://console.cloud.google.com/
  2. Log in with your Google account (for example, Gmail).
  3. With the Google account, register for GCP.

At this point, I won't write many step-by-step instructions, since it's a straightforward registration process. You can check on the internet if you have doubts about any step, at this link: https://cloud.google.com/free.

A common question at this point is, am I going to pay for this?

When you initially register for GCP, you will be asked for a payment method, but you won't be charged for anything at that point. So, when will you get charged?

You will be charged after...