A journey learning cloud databases
Gladstone Benjamin
*****NOTE: There are some changes to the skills being measured on or after October 31, 2023.***** Study guide for Exam AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution (skills measured as of October 31 2023) (I wrote the exam on October 6, 2023, so some things may vary from the following post): Given … Read more
In moving into a new more senior role, I was asked to look into the Kimball method. There was not a great deal of time to fully immerse myself into this methodology, that I never really formally implemented, so I commenced with was the purchase of Kimball’s Data Warehouse Toolkit Classics: As per the … Read more
Here is a link to the [COF-C02] SnowPro Core Certification Exam Study Guide: Core Exam Study Guide I was going to make a post about each link in the file but that quite honestly is not an intelligent use of time.
This is a serious exam, and in my opinion if you are planning on taking the exam, ensure that you have enough time to prepare, and have a thorough understanding of all topics before you attempt to write the exam. Reasons For Taking The Exam Based on my experience with my day-to-day work, I am … Read more
I have assembled some links for the exam, broken down by section. These links were from the A Cloud Guru practice exam explanations. Section 1. Designing data processing systems https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/ordering https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/guides/dataproc-images https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/what-to-consider-in-an-apache-kafka-to-pubsub-migration https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/loading-data-cloud-storage-json https://beam.apache.org/documentation/programming-guide/#core-beam-transforms https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/secondary-indexes https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-consistency https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/overview https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/loading-data-cloud-storage-avro https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/concepts https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/overview https://beam.apache.org/documentation/programming-guide/#side-inputs https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/guides/dataproc-images https://cloud.google.com/solutions/migration/hadoop/migrating-apache-spark-jobs-to-cloud-dataproc https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-service-accounts https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/loading-data-cloud-storage-json Section 2. Building and … Read more
Welcome to my blog. My name is Gladstone Benjamin and I am a Data Architect by trade. This blog is essentially my documentation of my journey of learning new cloud database technologies primarily from AWS, Azure, and GCP. I will also be writing about NoSQL databases, Big Data in general, Reporting Tools, etc. I will … Read more