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Data Analysis in Hadoop

When I was taking a Big Data course under Professor Rami El-Youssef at the University of Texas at Dallas. I learned a lot about HDFS, Hive, Impala, and Spark, which are essential tools for big data processing. With prof’s assignments I was able to get hands on experience in each topic. However, I wanted to put all these learnings together with a...

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Collecting GCP Monitoring Metrics

Google Cloud Platform allows you too visualize data on resource usage through the monitoring page. But this data is not accessible in raw format. During my internship, I needed this data on one of my dashboards. I thought there would be an easy way to export it, but boy was I wrong. A senior pointed me to this resource -> Reading metric data...

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How I got my first Google Cloud Certificate

When I started my Master’s Degree one of the things I wanted to do was learn AWS and get certified, so that I could land a good internship. I created a AWS account and started learning but the material I was using was dry and boring, so I dropped the idea and decided to focus on other things. During my summer internship I was using GCP for a lot...

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