Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

An end-to-end guide to processing and analyzing big data using Google Cloud Platform

Sanket Thodge 지음

Packt(GCO Science) 2018년 04월 10일 출간

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1: INTRODUCING CLOUD ANALYTICS
2: DESIGN AND BUSINESS CONSIDERATIONS
3: GCP 10,000 FEET ABOVE ？ A HIGH-LEVEL UNDERSTANDING OF GCP
4: INGESTION AND STORING ？ BRING THE DATA AND CAPTURE IT
5: PROCESSING AND VISUALIZING ？ CLOSE ENCOUNTER
6: MACHINE LEARNING, DEEP LEARNING, AND AI ON GCP
7: GUIDANCE ON GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM CERTIFICATION
8: BUSINESS USE CASES
9: INTRODUCTION TO AWS AND AZURE

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▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, Introducing Cloud Analytics, discusses the traditional way that companies prefer to build their on-premise architecture for analytics. This will majorly discuss the enterprises' approach towards the analytics engine how they handle/process/report data. It will also give an introduction to analytics and data science concepts. And the top cloud vendors who provides it. This chapter will also give a brief overview of cloud computing.

- Chapter 2, Design and Business Considerations, talks more about the design and architecture of the cloud. Before moving to the cloud, do we need to consider on-premise hardware or should we consider moving it straight away? What are the prerequisites before migrating to the cloud? And the best practices to follow for migration. Topics like these will be covered.

- Chapter 3, GCP 10,000 Feet Above ？. A High-Level Understanding of GCP, explains all the analytics tools such as Datastore, BigTable, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, machine learning, IoT, Pub/Sub, and many more in detail. Here we are covering all the services in GCP and appending them with top features, pricing, use cases of all the services.

- Chapter 4, Ingestion and Storing ？. Bring the Data and Capture It, dives into the major services involving ingestion and storing. We have multiple options associated with ingestion and storage. We will be discussing about eight major services which can help us with ingestion and storage. We have videos for each of the services.
There will be a few cloud use cases from the industry about the purpose of each tool.

- Chapter 5, Processing and Visualizing ？. Close Encounter, Squeeze the Data and Make It Work, discusses the processing tools and machine learning APIs that are available with GCP. GCP has extensive tools for processing data. For processing, we have Cloud Dataproc (Hadoop and Spark). BigQuery, Cloud SQL, and more will be covered. We have videos for each of the services.

- Chapter 6, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI on GCP, talks predominantly about artificial intelligence and machine learning. In the beginning of the chapter, we will understand what artificial intelligence is, and later, we will understand what machine learning is. We have videos for most of the services.

- Chapter 7, Guidance on Google Cloud Platform Certification, focuses mainly on GCP certification with respect to cloud architects and data engineers. Along with that, it will also have some dummy/sample questions from certification.

- Chapter 8, Business Use Cases, includes examples from multiple sectors sectors. They will help the reader get a more precise understanding of the cloud and how they are used. We have three use cases - they talk about the problem statement, different approach towards each problem, solution to each, architecture, and list of services required.

- Chapter 9, Introduction to AWS and Azure, covers the major tools in AWS and Azure about data science and analytics. Most of the tools will be closely related to data science. The aim of this chapter will be relating the GCP tools with AWS and Azure. For example, we have cloud storage in GCP, and similarly we have S3 in AWS and Blob Storage in Azure.

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▶Editorial Review
With the ongoing data explosion, more and more organizations all over the world are slowly migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. These cloud platforms also provide distinct analytics services to help you get faster insights from your data.

This book will give you an introduction to the concept of analytics on the cloud and the different cloud services popularly used for processing and analyzing data. If you're planning to adopt the cloud analytics model for your business, this book will help you in understanding the design and business considerations to keep in mind, and choose the best tools and alternatives for analytics based on your requirements. The chapters in this book will take you through the 70+ services available on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and their implementation for practical purposes. From ingestion to processing your data, this book contains best practices on choosing right services required to build an end-to-end analytics pipeline on the cloud by leveraging popular concepts such as machine learning and deep learning.

This book is also covering GCP certification aspect and a chapter is dedicated to give you a boost start in GCP certification preparation. Also, readers who have worked on AWS and Azure can refer to the appendix if they are willing to understand which are the different services in GCP, AWS, and Azure provisioning the same purpose.

By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of cloud analytics as a concept as well as a practical know-how of its implementation.

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저자(글) Sanket Thodge

Sanket Thodge is an entrepreneur by profession based out of Pune, India. Sanket started his journey working in service industry, but soon realized that there are more things to do in life. Therefore, Sanket incorporated startup with the name as Pi R Square Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd. Career being started as a Hadoop Developer, Sanket explored Cloud, Internet of Things, Machine Learning and Blockchain.Sanket has also applied for a patent in IoT and has worked with numerous startups and multinationals in providing consultancy, architecture building, development, and corporate training across globe.