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Position Tracker – In the beginning

May 13, 2020 9:00 am / Leave a Comment / dangerousDBA

As mentioned in the previous post starting this all up again then I have been looking at expanding and improving my skills around python and Google Cloud.

What did I do:

To this end I took up Googles offer and signed up for the “Free courses during COVID” offer and followed through with the QwickLabs modules. One of the quests contained a IOT device simulator, this was a fairly simple amount of data that was passed through all the way to Google Big Query. I am going to take this and completely plagiarise it as a learning example to build upon as I think it is a good basis for a lot of things:

  1. Improving my python – The first iteration I will publish I plan to replace the data files the code ingests with something that generates “random” data. There is a lot of scope to use different methods to improve this
  2. Extending the pipeline – This pipeline can go all the way through to visualisation in Google Data Studio
  3. Looking at Google Big Query – This is a very interesting area, we can look at functions, GIS and all things GBQ
  4. Other Google Services – There are many services used in this example and I feel that we can add more as we need such as Google Cloud Composer,

Where can this wonder code be found:

I have a Git Hub account where I have various white whales that I have started, and this particular one can be found: here

How is this going to work:

I am going to start by creating a pipeline that is not much of a departure from what is offered by the current Quest. I will then iterate on that to produce proof of concepts and give appraisals of what I have done, try and critique myself. You will be able to find the work in my GitHub repo and we can see where we go from here, depending on mainly when I get time to do these things!

Who can help:

You all can if you think that there is a better way to do literally everything I would love to know and investigate. I am pretty certain that there is for my Python location data generating stub after the first rushed iteration.

I look forward to hearing from you all!

Posted in: 2020, Big Data, BigQuery, BigQuery, Cloud, Dataflow, GCP, Google, IOT, Position Tracker, PubSub / Tagged: BigQuery, Dataflow, Devices, GCP, Google, Google Cloud, IOT, Position Tracking, PubSub

Whats been going on in the world of the Dangerous DBA:

May 11, 2020 3:19 pm / Leave a Comment / dangerousDBA

It’s been a while ….. again:

So since I last posted way back in 2016 and QCon there has been a lot of water under the bridge in terms of technologies used and abused, and either taken into the stack or discarded to the ummm it nearly worked pile.

Things that have changed in that time:

Where a I work has seen a massive increase in the number of people in the data team in response to the business becoming far more data driven. The team has gone from two or three of us to three distinct sections all with a minimum of four people in them.

We now embrace what was just emerging as a widespread phenomenon in 2016 – streaming data; and make good use of this for micro services and data products.

I now have processed to a “senior” role in the business; with juniors and none prefixed or suffixed data engineers in the data products team.

Things that have NOT changed in that time:

We are still moving off DB2 but due to several large scale events over the years and the increasing size of the team then this is rapidly gathering pace but as a business we still need the old beast, but it has been on somewhat of a diet!

Where are things going:

Well for us from the Data Centre and Amazon Web Services (AWS) and to Google Cloud. Making extensive use of everything that it has to offer because of it nature we face far less of the size issues that we did on the data centre or even on AWS with some of its offerings

What are my interests (white whales) now:

Well I am going to be looking at a few things now:

  1. Google Cloud Management – is it possible to create a tool that will aid this from a green field prospective and also brownfield. It seems (not that I can google so they need to do a better effort at SEO) that there is not a product out there that does this in an obvious way
  2. IOT – This is going to be something that is “easily implemented” but then has individual elements that can taken WAY further, currently working on something and look put for upcoming posts

Posted in: 2020, Big Data, Blogging, General Blog / Tagged: AWS, GCP

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