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Preparing for Google Cloud's newest certification: Associate Data Practitioner (ADP)

Intrigued to understand more about Google Cloud's newest certification as it becomes generally available? Read about the exam content, format, difficulty and my experience and advice to pass the exam.

Posted on January 22, 2025

Google Cloud’s latest certification ‘Associate Data Practitioner’ is now generally available for those who missed the beta exam. After being envious of the flurry of announcements filling my LinkedIn feed of people passing the Beta exam version, I waited eagerly for the exam to become generally available and finally sat... [Read More]

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AlloyDB vs PostgreSQL: Unleash Performance, Slash Costs, Simplify Data Stack

Is Your PostgreSQL Holding You Back? Learn how AlloyDB Delivers Superior Performance, Cost Savings, and Architectural Simplicity.

Posted on January 16, 2025

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Gearing Up for Machine Learning My Journey to GCP Professional ML Engineer

To help reinforce my learning, I’m creating various blog posts on the topics I’m studying in preparation for the exam, and to assist anyone else embarking upon the Google Cloud ML Engineer certification, or interested in learning more about machine learning topics. This blog post focuses on Machine Learning, how it relates to Artificial Intelligence and the common model types.

Posted on June 28, 2024

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Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Network Engineer certification

This blog equips you with the knowledge and tools to tackle Google Cloud's Professional Cloud Network Engineer certification. Dive into exam essentials: Understand key skills tested and Google's expectations. Your study plan: Discover best practices, recommended resources, and practice tips. Insider knowledge: Gain insights on exam format, structure, and potential challenges. My experience: Learn from my journey and benefit from valuable advice I have gleaned after achieving this certification three times.

Posted on February 1, 2024

Last week I embarked upon my latest certification renewal- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Network Engineer (PCNE). This was my third time certifying as a Professional Cloud Network Engineer having initially passed in January 2020, renewed in 2022, and again in 2024. The exam had been updated this time, so it... [Read More]

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Simplifying data ingestion with Google Cloud's Pub/Sub BigQuery Subscriptions

In this blog I cover how to implement a simple data ingestion pipeline using Google Cloud Pub/Sub's BigQuery Subscription service including example Terraform code.

Posted on December 8, 2023

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