GCP Data Demystified…. An event recap.
This week we presented our first Cloud event of 2022, Google Cloud Data Demystified.
Providing a quick lesson on how to design a data ecosystem in 1 hour. Diving into some of the tools/services you can use, best practices, challenges and cost implications. Plus what kind of skill sets would be the best fit for each area for your team - and how to make sure it's scalable!
More content covered:
Ingestions and Data Engineering
Data Modelling, Visualisation and Analytics Engineering
Data Products and DataOps Engineering
MLOps, Data Science and ML Engineering
About the speaker
Richard Shenghua He
Independent GCP Data consultant with 4+ years’ experience designing and building GCP-based data platforms for the likes of Just Eat, Pearson and leading GCP Data & Analytics partner – Datatonic.
Q&A with the speaker:
What are the common problems when building these systems or growing a team in this area?
Richard: Focus around Software Engineering foundations, building frameworks and re-usable components not repeating.
How difficult is it to learn DBT or become an Analytics Engineer?
Richard: Focus around DBT is SQL based so typically analysts interested in more of an engineering way of working get into this role. DBT Cloud is browser based, so it’s easy to get started and you just have to learn version control.
What skills are required in this area to run these systems well?
Richard: Software Engineering skills and DevOps best practices.
At what stage should an organisation look into this area?
Richard: They must have a solid foundation with high quality ingested data and sufficient insight knowing what problem they are trying to solve with predictions.
Structure and time stamps for the event
Introduction : 1:30
Presentation and live whiteboard session with Richard : 7:50
Live audience Q&A with Richard : 45:30
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