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.
Load data into BigQuery and materialize its output for downstream consumption
Build data pipeline orchestration using Cloud Composer
Develop Airflow jobs to orchestrate and automate a data warehouse
Build a Hadoop data lake, create ephemeral clusters, and run jobs on the Dataproc cluster
Leverage Pub/Sub for messaging and ingestion for event-driven systems
Use Dataflow to perform ETL on streaming data
Unlock the power of your data with Data Studio
Calculate the GCP cost estimation for your end-to-end data solutions