The two key components of any data pipeline are data lakes and warehouses. This course highlights use-cases for each type of storage and dives into the available data lake and warehouse solutions on Google Cloud in technical detail. Also, this course describes the role of a data engineer, the benefits of a successful data pipeline to business operations, and examines why data engineering should be done in a cloud environment.
Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Google Cloud
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Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Google Cloud
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Differentiate between data lakes and data warehouses.
Explore use-cases for each type of storage and the available data lake and warehouse solutions on Google Cloud.
Discuss the role of a data engineer and the benefits of a successful data pipeline to business operations.
Examine why data engineering should be done in a cloud environment.
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There are 5 modules in this course
This module introduces the Data Engineering on Google Cloud source series and this Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Google Cloud course.
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This module discusses the role of data engineering and motivates the claim why data engineering should be done in the Cloud
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In this module, we describe what data lake is and how to use Cloud Storage as your data lake on Google Cloud.
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8 videos1 assignment1 app item
In this module, we talk about BigQuery as a data warehousing option on Google Cloud
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17 videos1 assignment3 app items
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