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Use Case: Identify Birthdays and Send Notification EmailsPhoto by Imants Kaziļuns on UnsplashBuilding an event reminder, like Facebook anniversary reminder can seem more laborious than it really is. In this article, I elaborate on an easy, yet efficient way to build a birthday reminder application. Please, read through to unlock your access to the repository containing the full working code. Following are the main topics covered:Introduction to Cloud Workflows and Cloud RunBuild the Birthday Identification ServiceBuild…

OpinionDo not kill a fly with a hammerImage By Author, Fire Logo Designed By Freepik¹Did you know that as a Google Cloud user, there are many services to choose from to orchestrate your jobs ? For batch jobs, the natural choice has been Cloud Composer for a long time. However, it does not have to continue. This article is about introducing 2 alternatives to Cloud Composer for job orchestration in Google Cloud.The main topics of this content are as follow:Use Cases where Cloud Composer ShinesTwo Alternatives to Cloud…

Use Scheduled CICD pipelines to shut down environments and restore them to their previous statePhoto by Sasun Bughdaryan on UnsplashCloud Composer is an managed and scalable installation of the popular sophisticated job orchestrator Airflow. The service is available from the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in 2 flavors: Cloud Composer 1 and Cloud Composer 2, the main difference being Workers Autoscaling that is available only in Cloud Composer 2.For having been using the service for many years, I can definitely say that it’s…

Use Scheduled CICD pipelines to shut down environments and restore them to their previous statePhoto by Sasun Bughdaryan on UnsplashCloud Composer is an managed and scalable installation of the popular sophisticated job orchestrator Airflow. The service is available from the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in 2 flavors: Cloud Composer 1 and Cloud Composer 2, the main difference being Workers Autoscaling that is available only in Cloud Composer 2.For having been using the service for many years, I can definitely say that it’s…

And Choose To Manually Define and Control your BigQuery Table SchemaPhoto by Michał Jakubowski on UnsplashSchema auto-detection is an attractive feature people think of when they need to create a database table. Think about it! Being able to automatically detect a data schema sounds really great because it allows to save the time that was traditionally devoted to defining data schemas manually.It’s no surprise BigQuery offers the schema auto-detection capacity for a couple of data types including CSV,…