Boosting your confidence and final thoughts

One thing that I hope you get after reading this book is more confidence – the confidence to design and develop a data pipeline and, more importantly, the confidence as a data engineer to use GCP.

I will quote the definition of the word confidence in a physiological context by the American Psychological Association: “Confidence is Self-assurance: trust in one’s abilities, capacities, and judgment.”

By following all the chapters throughout the book, you’ve learned about the important GCP services related to data engineering and tried them out in your environment by completing the hands-on exercises provided. You’ve tried 19 new technologies from GCP, including BigQuery, GCS, Cloud Composer, Dataproc, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Dataplex, Dataform, Data Loss Prevention or Sensitive Data Protection, Looker Studio, Vertex AI, IAM, Cloud Shell, Cloud Editor, Cloud Build, Google Container Registry...