A quick overview of GCP services for data engineering

As you can see in the GCP Console navigation bar, there are a lot of services in GCP. The services are not only limited to data and analytics. They also cover other areas such as application development, machine learning, networks, source repositories, and many more. As a data engineer working on GCP, you will face situations when you need to decide which services you need to use for your organization.

You might be wondering, who in an organization should decide on the services to use? Is it the CTO, IT manager, solution architect, or data engineers? The answer depends on the experience of using GCP of each of them. But most of the time, data engineers need to be involved in the decision.

So how should we decide? In my experience, there are three important decision factors:

• Choose services that are serverless.
• Understand the mapping between the service and the data engineering areas.
• If there is more than...