Why You Don't Need Experience To Pass The GCP Professional Data Engineer Exam

Ben Makansi May 7th, 2025 4 minute read

You can absolutely pass the Professional Data Engineer exam without any GCP or cloud experience.A lot of folks think they need years of experience with... more »

Dataflow Watermarks & Triggers: Optimizing Stream Processing

Ben Makansi May 2nd, 2025 6 minute read

Understanding Watermarks in Dataflow: What They Are and Why They MatterWatermarks are one of the most important concepts to understand when working with Dataflow,... more »

Dataflow: Understanding Windowing

Ben Makansi May 2nd, 2025 4 minute read

Understanding Windowing in DataflowWhen working with streaming data, one of the first questions that comes up is: how do you group or analyze data when it never... more »

Dataflow: Core Concepts and Terminology

Ben Makansi May 2nd, 2025 10 minute read

To pass the GCP Professional Data Engineer exam, you have to know certain foundational concepts in Dataflow that define how data is represented and... more »