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Maintaining and automating data workloads at Cymbal Retail - Google Cloud Platform Tutorial
From the course: Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Cert Prep
Maintaining and automating data workloads at Cymbal Retail
- [Speaker] Let's begin by exploring the role of a professional data engineer in helping Cymbal Retail maintain and automate its data workloads. As part of the data engineering team at Cymbal Retail, you are responsible for ensuring cost-effectiveness and correctness of data. The team has understood that automation and observability are cornerstones to providing a reliable and scalable service to end customers, internal teams, and to vendors. You need to be familiar with monitoring and managing active workloads to balance compute capacity, error handling, and costs. Cost control, though extremely important, cannot be detrimental to the end user experience. Webpages and purchase workflows have to be fast and frictionless. Availability has to be high. As a customer, who has even a one-time bad experience is a customer lost. In order to balance the competing demands of user experience and cost efficiency, you need to research…
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