Preface

There is too much information; too many plans; it's complicated. We live in a world where there is more and more information that is as problematic as too little information, and I'm aware that this condition applies when people want to start doing data engineering in the cloud, specifically Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in this book.

When people want to embark on a career in data, there are so many different roles whose definitions sometimes vary from one company to the next.

When someone chooses to be a data engineer, there are a great number of technology options: cloud versus non-cloud; big data database versus traditional; self-managed versus a managed service; and many more.

When they decide to use the cloud on GCP, the public ...

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