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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
4
Section 2: Building Solutions with GCP Components
11
Section 3: Key Strategies for Architecting Top-Notch Data Pipelines

Introduction to the BigQuery console

The best way to understand BigQuery is by using it, so let's start with a simple exercise. This first exercise will focus on understanding the BigQuery console. The BigQuery console is your main user interface for developing and using BigQuery. In this exercise, we will create a dataset and table and query the table using the BigQuery console.

Let's start our exercise by opening the BigQuery console from our browser:

  1. Open your GCP console. 
  2. Go to the navigation bar and choose BigQuery. This is the BigQuery main page, called the BigQuery console.

Figure 3.1 – BigQuery console

  1. As you can see, there are a multitude of buttons and panels in the BigQuery console. I recommend that you quickly scan through the console to familiarize yourself with the menus. As the first step, let's look at the left panel, Explorer.

You can find your project name in Explorer as a default...