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Cloud Computing and Virtualisation

Data Engineering on Google Cloud

  • Length 4 days
  • Price  NZD 3400 exc GST
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Why study this course

This four-day instructor-led course provides participants a hands-on introduction to designing and building data processing systems on Google Cloud. Through a combination of presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants will learn how to design data processing systems, build end-to-end data pipelines, analyse data, and carry out machine learning. The course covers structured, unstructured, and streaming data.

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What you’ll learn

This course teaches participants the following skills:

  • Design and build data processing systems on Google Cloud

  • Process batch and streaming data by implementing autoscaling data pipelines on Cloud Dataflow

  • Derive business insights from extremely large datasets using Google BigQuery

  • Leverage unstructured data using Spark and ML APIs on Dataproc.

  • Enable instant insights from streaming data.

  • Understand ML APIs and BigQuery ML, and learn to use AutoML to create powerful models without coding.

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Who is the course for?

This course is intended for experienced developers who are responsible for managing big data transformations including:

  • Extracting, loading, transforming, cleaning, and validating data

  • Designing pipelines and architectures for data processing

  • Creating and maintaining machine learning and statistical models

  • Querying datasets, visualising query results, and creating reports

Course subjects

Module 1: Introduction to Data Engineering

  • Explore the role of a data engineer

  • Analyse data engineering challenges

  • Introduction to BigQuery

  • Data lakes and data warehouses

  • Transactional databases versus data warehouses

  • Partner effectively with other data teams

  • Manage data access and governance

  • Build production-ready pipelines

  • Review Google Cloud customer case study

  • Lab: Using BigQuery to do Analysis

Module 2: Building a Data Lake

  • Introduction to data lakes

  • Data storage and ETL options on Google Cloud

  • Building a data lake using Cloud Storage

  • Securing Cloud Storage

  • Storing all sorts of data types

  • Cloud SQL as a relational data lake

  • Lab: Loading Taxi Data into Cloud SQL

Module 3: Building a Data Warehouse

  • The modern data warehouse

  • Introduction to BigQuery

  • Getting started with BigQuery

  • Loading data

  • Exploring schemas

  • Schema design

  • Nested and repeated fields

  • Optimising with partitioning and clustering

  • Lab: Loading Data into BigQuery

  • Lab: Working with JSON and Array Data in BigQuery

Module 4: Introduction to Building Batch Data Pipelines

  • EL, ELT, ETL

  • Quality considerations

  • How to carry out operations in BigQuery

  • Shortcomings

  • ETL to solve data quality issues

Module 5: Executing Spark on Dataproc

  • The Hadoop ecosystem

  • Run Hadoop on Dataproc

  • Cloud Storage instead of HDFS

  • Optimise Dataproc

  • Lab: Running Apache Spark jobs on Dataproc

Module 6: Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow

  • Introduction to Dataflow

  • Why customers value Dataflow

  • Dataflow pipelines

  • Aggregating with GroupByKey and Combine

  • Side inputs and windows

  • Dataflow templates

  • Dataflow SQL

  • Lab: A Simple Dataflow Pipeline (Python/Java)

  • Lab: MapReduce in Dataflow (Python/Java)

  • Lab: Side inputs (Python/Java)

Module 7: Manage Data Pipelines with Cloud Data Fusion and Cloud Composer

  • Building batch data pipelines visually with Cloud Data Fusion

  • Components

  • UI overview

  • Building a pipeline

  • Exploring data using Wrangler

  • Orchestrating work between Google Cloud services with Cloud Composer

  • Apache Airflow environment

  • DAGs and operators

  • Workflow scheduling

  • Monitoring and logging

  • Lab: Building and Executing a Pipeline Graph in Data Fusion

  • Optional Lab: An introduction to Cloud Composer

Module 8: Introduction to Processing Streaming Data

  • Process Streaming Data

Module 9: Serverless Messaging with Pub/Sub

  • Introduction to Pub/Sub

  • Pub/Sub push versus pull

  • Publishing with Pub/Sub code

  • Lab: Publish Streaming Data into Pub/Sub

Module 10: Dataflow Streaming Features

  • Steaming data challenges

  • Dataflow windowing

  • Lab: Streaming Data Pipelines

Module 11: High-Throughput BigQuery and Bigtable Streaming Features

  • Streaming into BigQuery and visualising results

  • High-throughput streaming with Cloud Bigtable

  • Optimising Cloud Bigtable performance

  • Lab: Streaming Analytics and Dashboards

  • Lab: Streaming Data Pipelines into Bigtable

Module 12: Advanced BigQuery Functionality and Performance

  • Analytic window functions

  • Use With clauses

  • GIS functions

  • Performance considerations

  • Lab: Optimising your BigQuery Queries for Performance

  • Optional Lab: Partitioned Tables in BigQuery

Module 13: Introduction to Analytics and AI

  • What is AI?

  • From ad-hoc data analysis to data-driven decisions

  • Options for ML models on Google Cloud

Module 14: Prebuilt ML Model APIs for Unstructured Data

  • Unstructured data is hard

  • ML APIs for enriching data

  • Lab: Using the Natural Language API to Classify Unstructured Text

Module 15: Big Data Analytics with Notebooks

  • What’s a notebook?

  • BigQuery magic and ties to Pandas

  • Lab: BigQuery in Jupyter Labs on AI Platform

Module 16: Production ML Pipelines

  • Ways to do ML on Google Cloud

  • Vertex AI Pipelines

  • AI Hub

  • Lab: Running Pipelines on Vertex AI

Module 17: Custom Model Building with SQL in BigQuery ML

  • BigQuery ML for quick model building

  • Supported models

  • Lab option 1: Predict Bike Trip Duration with a Regression Model in BigQuery ML

  • Lab option 2: Movie Recommendations in BigQuery ML

Module 18: Custom Model Building with AutoML

  • Why AutoML?

  • AutoML Vision

  • AutoML NLP

  • AutoML tables

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this course, participants should have:

  • Completed Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals course OR have equivalent experience

  • Basic proficiency with common query language such as SQL

  • Experience with data modeling and ETL (extract, transform, load) activities

  • Experience with developing applications using a common programming language such Python

  • Familiarity with Machine Learning and/or statistics

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