Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification (Jan 2021)

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Exam Knowledge Areas

Pre Exam Notes

• Kryterion Sentinel software (Windows/Mac) installation requires administrator rights
• Kyterion system check - do this at least a day before to be on the …

Introduction

Build, test, and deploy on the Google Cloud serverless CI/CD platform. Cloud Build scales up and scales down in response to load with no need to pre-provision servers or pay in advance for additional capacity. Pay only for what you use.

In this blog post, Cloud Build is used for the automation of Hugo …

"PDFtk - The PDF Toolkit. PDFtk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. It comes in three flavors: PDFtk Free, PDFtk Pro, and our original command-line tool PDFtk Server."

In this blog post learn how to install PDFTK used to edit PDF.

1. Install PDFTK on debian

1sudo apt install pdftk …

"PDFtk - The PDF Toolkit. PDFtk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. It comes in three flavors: PDFtk Free, PDFtk Pro, and our original command-line tool PDFtk Server."

In a prior blog post, the PDFTK utility was installed. Now use the utility to remove a watermark from a PDF.

1. Get …

Introduction

Tmux is a terminal multiplexer. It lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the background) and reattach them to a different terminal. If you work at the command line, manage multiple machines or work in the Cloud you will definitely want to …

Introduction

If you want to build a container image there are lots of options available. Docker, Buildpacks and Cloud Build provides a very convienient way to manage builds. In this blog post, we will use Cloud Build to create an image based on a configuration.

Google Cloud Project

Definitely check out Free Tier to try …

Introduction

Blogging is a really good way to make notes on the things you have learned over the years. Previously I used Wordpress to capture my notes but I found it quite cumbersome.

More recently I became aware of Hugo and decided to give it a try (spoilers this site is the result). Hugo is a really amazing piece of …

Introduction

The Hosting a static website blog post walks through the essentials of running a website from a Google Cloud Storage bucket.

In general just remember that the bucket name needs to be globally unique.

ProTip: prefix the bucket name with the Google project identifier e.g. myawesomeproject-bucket

In this …

Introduction

A landing page is just a simple webpage that typically has a background image and some information. Here are some examples to get you started.

• dev.to
• onepagelove.com

Lets use the free template onepagelove.com/download/me as an example page to get up and running.

Working with the example Landing Page

As …

The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive.
In the following blog post I assume you already have the Go environment setup. To get started with Go is just a matter of adding some code. The example below covers a basic "Hello World".

Go Installation

1. Confirm Go is …