An Introduction to Google Cloud Platform for Data Engineers
The First Course in a Series for Attaining the Google Certified Data Engineer
Updated on Jun, 2025
Language - English
Office Productivity,Google,Google Cloud
Lectures -44
Duration -2.5 hours
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Course Description
An Introduction to Google Cloud Platform for Data Engineers
Welcome to An Introduction to Google Cloud Platform for Data Engineers. This is the first course in a series of courses designed to help you attain the coveted Google Certified Data Engineer.
At this juncture, the Google Certified Data Engineer is the only real-world certification for data and machine learning engineers.
The Harvard Review dubbed the data scientist the sexiest job of the 21st century. It might be the greatest job in the world if you have a dedicated team of data engineers at your beck and call otherwise you’re the first week of work is going to be a tough one.
Most applied machine learning is supervised. That simply means you use a data set to build your machine learning or deep learning models with.
In the real world, data is messy, complicated and very difficult to work with. Another real-world issue is working with data at scale. Very few companies have the computing or storage resources to work with large data sets. That's where the Google Cloud Platform comes in. The tools they've built for the cloud are the tools they are using internally.
This is the first course in a series of courses dedicated to learning the Google Cloud Platform and attaining the Google Certified Data Engineer.
This course will lay the foundation for what you’ll need in order to become a data engineer and pass the exam. In the course, we will cover all the basics of the platform and be prepared to move into the more advanced data engineering-specific courses.
Goals
- At the end of this course, you'll understand all the core services you'll need to know for the Data Engineer Certification.
- You'll know the basics and be able to move forward in architecting real-world data engineering solutions.
- You will understand the basics of how to navigate Google's Cloud Platform.
- You will understand how to use Google's Big Data Services on the Google Cloud Platform.
Prerequisites
- You'll need a basic understanding of cloud technologies.
- You'll need a basic understanding of SQL. (any flavour).
Curriculum
Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course
Introduction
6 Lectures
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Introduction
02:05
02:05
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Is this Course for You?
02:01
02:01
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Instructor Course Q&A
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Cloud Platform Resource Hierarchy
04:21
04:21
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The Exam Case Study
04:01
04:01
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Core Resources - Big Data
02:25
02:25
Setting Up Shop
8 Lectures
Compute Services
7 Lectures
Google Cloud Storage
5 Lectures
CloudSQL Overview
5 Lectures
The Data Section
9 Lectures
Python on Google Cloud Platform
3 Lectures
Instructor Details
Mike West
I'm the founder of LogikBot. I've worked at Microsoft and Uber. I helped design courses for Microsoft's Data Science Certifications. If you're interested in machine learning, I can help.
I've worked with databases for over two decades. I've worked for or consulted with over 50 different companies as a full time employee or consultant. Fortune 500 as well as several small to mid-size companies. Some include: Georgia Pacific, SunTrust, Reed Construction Data, Building Systems Design, NetCertainty, The Home Shopping Network, SwingVote, Atlanta Gas and Light and Northrup Grumman.
Over the last five years I've transitioned to the exciting world of applied machine learning. I'm excited to show you what I've learned and help you move into one of the single most important fields in this space.
Experience, education and passion
I learn something almost every day. I work with insanely smart people. I'm a voracious learner of all things SQL Server and I'm passionate about sharing what I've learned. My area of concentration is performance tuning. SQL Server is like an exotic sports car, it will run just fine in anyone's hands but put it in the hands of skilled tuner and it will perform like a race car.
Certifications
Certifications are like college degrees, they are a great starting points to begin learning. I'm a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA), Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).
Personal
Born in Ohio, raised and educated in Pennsylvania, I currently reside in Atlanta with my wife and two children.
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