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Manuel Escalona

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Diamond League

29420 points
Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud Earned Jun 28, 2024 EDT
Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process Earned Jun 20, 2024 EDT
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine Earned Jun 13, 2024 EDT
Preparing for your Professional Cloud Architect Journey Earned Jun 11, 2024 EDT
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation Earned Jun 5, 2024 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services Earned May 28, 2024 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation Earned May 22, 2024 EDT
BI Reporting: Looker Visualization on BigQuery Earned May 3, 2024 EDT
Application Development with Cloud Run Earned Dec 8, 2023 EST
Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud Earned Sep 7, 2023 EDT
DEPRECATED Planning for a Google Workspace Deployment Earned Sep 6, 2023 EDT
Create and Manage AlloyDB Instances Earned Sep 5, 2023 EDT
Create and Manage Bigtable Instances Earned Aug 28, 2023 EDT
Create and Manage Cloud Spanner Instances Earned Aug 23, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Responsible AI Earned Aug 15, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned Aug 15, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned Aug 14, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI Earned Aug 14, 2023 EDT
Contact Center AI: Conversational Design Fundamentals Earned Aug 9, 2023 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Marketing Analysts Earned Jul 18, 2023 EDT
BigQuery for Machine Learning Earned Jul 14, 2023 EDT
Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform Earned Jul 12, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned Jul 5, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals Earned Jun 30, 2023 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: BigQuery Extended Capabilities Earned Jun 27, 2023 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Analyze Data with Looker Earned Jun 27, 2023 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Streaming Analytics Earned Jun 27, 2023 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Stream Data with Pub/Sub Earned Jun 27, 2023 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Process Data with Dataflow Earned Jun 27, 2023 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Cloud Data Fusion Pipelines Earned Jun 27, 2023 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Process Data with Dataproc Earned Jun 27, 2023 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Optimize in BigQuery Earned Jun 27, 2023 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Data Warehouse Migration with BigQuery Earned Jun 27, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials Earned Jun 5, 2023 EDT
Enterprise Database Migration Earned Jun 2, 2023 EDT
Cloud SQL Earned May 25, 2023 EDT
Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Google Cloud Earned Jul 16, 2022 EDT

This course teaches participants techniques for monitoring and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud. Using a combination of presentations, demos, hands-on labs, and real-world case studies, attendees gain experience with full-stack monitoring, real-time log management and analysis, debugging code in production, tracing application performance bottlenecks, and profiling CPU and memory usage.

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This course equips students to build highly reliable and efficient solutions on Google Cloud using proven design patterns. It is a continuation of the Architecting with Google Compute Engine or Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine courses and assumes hands-on experience with the technologies covered in either of those courses. Through a combination of presentations, design activities, and hands-on labs, participants learn to define and balance business and technical requirements to design Google Cloud deployments that are highly reliable, highly available, secure, and cost-effective.

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Welcome to the Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine course. If you're interested in Kubernetes, a software layer that sits between your applications and your hardware infrastructure, then you’re in the right place! Google Kubernetes Engine brings you Kubernetes as a managed service on Google Cloud. The goal of this course is to introduce the basics of Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, as it’s commonly referred to, and how to get applications containerized and running in Google Cloud. The course starts with a basic introduction to Google Cloud, and is then followed by an overview of containers and Kubernetes, Kubernetes architecture, and Kubernetes operations.

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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PCA (Professional Cloud Architect) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.

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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including securely interconnecting networks, load balancing, autoscaling, infrastructure automation and managed services.

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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services. This course also covers deploying practical solutions including customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.

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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, virtual machines and applications services. You will learn how to use the Google Cloud through the console and Cloud Shell. You'll also learn about the role of a cloud architect, approaches to infrastructure design, and virtual networking configuration with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Projects, Networks, Subnetworks, IP addresses, Routes, and Firewall rules.

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This workload aims to upskill Google Cloud partners to perform specific tasks for modernization using LookML on BigQuery. A proof-of-concept will take learners through the process of creating LookML visualizations on BigQuery. During this course, learners will be guided specifically on how to write Looker modeling language, also known as LookML and create semantic data models, and learn how LookML constructs SQL queries against BigQuery. At a high level, this course will focus on basic LookML to create and access BigQuery objects, and optimize BigQuery objects with LookML.

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This course introduces you to fundamentals, practices, capabilities and tools applicable to modern cloud-native application development using Google Cloud Run. Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to on Google Cloud using Cloud Run.design, implement, deploy, secure, manage, and scale applications

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This course provides an introduction to using Terraform for Google Cloud. It enables learners to describe how Terraform can be used to implement infrastructure as code and to apply some of its key features and functionalities to create and manage Google Cloud infrastructure. Learners will get hands-on practice building and managing Google Cloud resources using Terraform.

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Planning for a Google Workspace Deployment is the final course in the Google Workspace Administration series. In this course, you will be introduced to Google's deployment methodology and best practices. You will follow Katelyn and Marcus as they plan for a Google Workspace deployment at Cymbal. They'll focus on the core technical project areas of provisioning, mail flow, data migration, and coexistence, and will consider the best deployment strategy for each area. You will also be introduced to the importance of Change Management in a Google Workspace deployment, ensuring that users make a smooth transition to Google Workspace and gain the benefits of work transformation through communications, support, and training. This course covers theoretical topics, and does not have any hands on exercises. If you haven’t already done so, please cancel your Google Workspace trial now to avoid any unwanted charges.

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Complete the introductory Create and Manage AlloyDB Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: performing core AlloyDB operations and tasks, migrating to AlloyDB from PostgreSQL, administering an AlloyDB database, and accelerating analytical queries using the AlloyDB Columnar Engine.

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Complete the introductory Create and Manage Bigtable Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating instances, designing schemas, querying data, and performing administrative tasks in Bigtable including monitoring performance and configuring node autoscaling and replication.

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Complete the introductory Create and Manage Cloud Spanner Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and interacting with Cloud Spanner instances and databases; loading Cloud Spanner databases using various techniques; backing up Cloud Spanner databases; defining schemas and understanding query plans; and deploying a Modern Web App connected to a Cloud Spanner instance.

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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.

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Earn a skill badge by passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI. A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.

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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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Welcome to "CCAI Conversational Design Fundamentals", the first course in the "Customer Experiences with Contact Center AI" series. In this course, learn how to design customer conversational solutions using Contact Center Artificial Intelligence (CCAI). You will be introduced to CCAI and its three pillars (Dialogflow, Agent Assist, and Insights), and the concepts behind conversational experiences and how the study of them influences the design of your virtual agent. After taking this course you will be prepared to take your virtual agent design to the next level of intelligent conversation.

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Want to turn your marketing data into insights and build dashboards? Bring all of your data into one place for large-scale analysis and model building. Get repeatable, scalable, and valuable insights into your data by learning how to query it and using BigQuery. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights.

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Want to build ML models in minutes instead of hours using just SQL? BigQuery ML democratizes machine learning by letting data analysts create, train, evaluate, and predict with machine learning models using existing SQL tools and skills. In this series of labs, you will experiment with different model types and learn what makes a good model.

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In this Quest, the experienced user of Google Cloud will learn how to describe and launch cloud resources with Terraform, an open source tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned. In these nine hands-on labs, you will work with example templates and understand how to launch a range of configurations, from simple servers, through full load-balanced applications.

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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.

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This course introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.

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This course explores the Geographic Information Systems (GIS), GIS Visualization, and machine learning enhancements to BigQuery.

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This course explores how to leverage Looker to create data experiences and gain insights with modern business intelligence (BI) and reporting.

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This course explores how to implement a streaming analytics solution using Dataflow and BigQuery.

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This course explores how to implement a streaming analytics solution using Pub/Sub.

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This course continues to explore the implementation of data load and transformation pipelines for a BigQuery Data Warehouse using Dataflow.

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This course continues to explore the implementation of data load and transformation pipelines for a BigQuery Data Warehouse using Cloud Data Fusion.

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This course explores the implementation of data load and transformation pipelines for a BigQuery Data Warehouse using Dataproc.

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Welcome to Optimize in BigQuery, where we map Enterprise Data Warehouse concepts and components to BigQuery and Google data services with a focus on optimization.

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In this course, you will receive technical training for Enterprise Data Warehouses solutions using BigQuery based on the best practices developed internally by Google’s technical sales and services organizations. The course will also provide guidance and training on key technical challenges that can arise when migrating existing Enterprise Data Warehouses and ETL pipelines to Google Cloud. You will get hands-on experience with real migration tasks, such as data migration, schema optimization, and SQL Query conversion and optimization. The course will also cover key aspects of ETL pipeline migration to Dataproc as well as using Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and Cloud Data Fusion, giving you hands-on experience using all of these tools for Data Warehouse ETL pipelines.

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In this introductory-level course, you get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Optional videos are provided to provide more context and review for the concepts covered in the labs. Google Cloud Essentials is a recommendeded first course for the Google Cloud learner - you can come in with little or no prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that you can apply to your first Google Cloud project. From writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying your first virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing, Google Cloud Essentials is a prime introduction to the platform’s basic features.

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This course is intended to give architects, engineers, and developers the skills required to help enterprise customers architect, plan, execute, and test database migration projects. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs participants move databases to Google Cloud while taking advantage of various services. This course covers how to move on-premises, enterprise databases like SQL Server to Google Cloud (Compute Engine and Cloud SQL) and Oracle to Google Cloud bare metal.

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Cloud SQL is a fully managed database service that stands out from its peers due to high performance, seamless integration, and impressive scalability. In this quest you will receive hands-on practice with the basics of Cloud SQL and quickly progress to advanced features, which you will apply to production frameworks and application environments. From creating instances and querying data with SQL, to building Deployment Manager scripts and connecting Cloud SQL instances with applications run on GKE containers, this quest will give you the knowledge and experience needed so you can start integrating this service right away.

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The two key components of any data pipeline are data lakes and warehouses. This course highlights use-cases for each type of storage and dives into the available data lake and warehouse solutions on Google Cloud in technical detail. Also, this course describes the role of a data engineer, the benefits of a successful data pipeline to business operations, and examines why data engineering should be done in a cloud environment. This is the first course of the Data Engineering on Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Building Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud course.

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