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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 Cloud Composer

Cloud Composer is an Airflow-managed service in GCP. Using Cloud Composer, we don't need to think about the infrastructure, installation, and software management for the Airflow environment. With this, we can focus only on the development and deployment of our data pipeline.

From the perspective of a data engineer, there is almost no difference between Cloud Composer and Airflow. When we learn how to use Cloud Composer, practically we learn how Airflow works.

Now, what is Airflow? Airflow is an open source workflow management tool. What is unique in Airflow is that we use a Python script to manage our workflows.

There are some elements we need to look at from the previous statement. Let's break down the statement into more detail. When talking about workflow management tools, there are three main components here, as follows:

  • Handling task dependencies
  • Scheduler
  • System integration

As a workflow management tool...