Data Processing Services in Google Cloud
For years, companies of all sizes have collected and stored vast amounts of data about their customers and business operations to enhance performance, achieve growth, and realize their goals. In 2006, Clive Humby, a renowned British mathematician, coined the phrase Data is the new oil to emphasize the growing importance of data in the modern business landscape. Google Cloud has a broad portfolio of data processing products.
In Chapter 7, we introduced some data-related services from the storage perspective. This chapter aims to familiarize us with the data processing services in Google Cloud. We discussed Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Firestore, Cloud Spanner, and Cloud Bigtable. To complete the story, we will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Data processing point of overview – Pub/Sub, Dataproc, and Dataflow
- Initializing and loading data using the command line, API transfer, and loading the data from Cloud Storage and...
