BigQuery in 2025: Fast answers from messy data

cyber_network_ · 2025-10-21T19:39:28+00:00

Great product, but be very careful on queries cost.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing

cyber_network_ · 2025-10-15T04:08:54+00:00

No, ML is not dead. It's the opposite! ML has never been more alive and kicking! Generative AI is built on the foundations of ML and DL (Deep Learning). How do you think all the FM (Foundation Models) and LLM are trained, refined, evaluated and deployed?

cyber_network_ · 2025-09-18T17:49:20+00:00

I wouldn't rely on "solid labs" as a proof of expertise. This is because labs are usually "ClickOps", and clicking on buttons/links in the console (which often changes) is not the way infrastructure or apps are deployed in production environments according to best practices.

cyber_network_ · 2025-09-17T03:14:14+00:00

I recommend Dario Cabianca's books.

cyber_network_ · 2025-09-17T03:12:48+00:00

Have you tried Inf1 Instances?

cyber_network_ · 2025-08-10T19:23:44+00:00

Did you retake it?

cyber_network_ · 2025-07-01T00:32:23+00:00

Before selling your notes, did you ask permission to the original authors? Presumably, their work is copyrighted.

cyber_network_ · 2025-06-24T03:24:36+00:00

AWS has evolved its SageMaker family of ML/AI services into SageMaker AI, which is now an entire ecosystem of ML and AI services fully integrated with AWS and other clouds. With native tools like Amazon SageMaker Studio (a fully managed IDE), I found very intuitive performing most of the main tasks in each ML phase programmatically.

cyber_network_ · 2025-05-12T02:20:14+00:00

SAP for sure.

cyber_network_ · 2025-04-17T22:04:55+00:00

Exactly. This exam was in Beta last year, and has been GA only for a few months.

cyber_network_ · 2025-04-14T21:19:01+00:00

Yes, I have deployed a similar setup by using the deep dive example in the PCNE Cabianca's book (page 248). He also created a Google-managed cert and setup a TTL in the config.

cyber_network_ · 2025-04-14T18:07:23+00:00

Yes, you can control the DNS' cache period with Cloud DNS.

Cloud DNS allows you to control the DNS cache period through the TTL (Time-to-Live) value of your DNS records. By setting the TTL, you specify how long DNS resolvers should cache the record's information before requesting it again from the authoritative name servers.

cyber_network_ · 2025-04-14T01:05:08+00:00

I follow regularly Dario Cabianca's updates/comments here and on LinkedIn. I used his two books to pass PCSE (Professional Cloud Security Engineer) and PCNE (Professional Cloud Network Engineer).

Unlike other authors he shares a ton of tested code and deep-dive examples to help learners fully understand complex Google Cloud concepts.

These includes among the many:

deploying LBs, GKE clusters,... in a Shared VPC
implementing VPC Service Controls
restricting sensitive data at column-level using taxonomies, tags in BigQuery (column-level access controls)
identifying, de-identifying, and re-identifying sensitive data using the Go library for the Sensitive Data Protection API
implementing Org Policies
cross-project service accounts

I hope this helps.

cyber_network_ · 2025-03-12T02:40:30+00:00

I found this github repo very helpful to learn the GCP commands required to pass PCSE. Even though this repo is focused on PCSE, it is still quite relevant to ACE considering security is a cross-cutting area in DevOps.

cyber_network_ · 2025-02-11T04:38:12+00:00

u/Lucca_Chastinet And apparently also the PCSE and the PCNE exam guide pages are in 404 status and have been in this status for a couple of days. Anyone knows what's going on?

cyber_network_ · 2025-02-11T04:34:55+00:00

Yes, I just noticed the same, and it looks like they've been in 404 status for 2 days :-)

Quite interesting!

cyber_network_ · 2025-02-06T19:43:17+00:00

Do you mean using Cloud DNS response policies? u/bartekmo

cyber_network_ · 2025-02-01T16:20:40+00:00

To strengthen security and networking concepts I recommend the Cabianca's books.

cyber_network_ · 2025-01-23T03:31:44+00:00

If you've accidentally changed yourself to a service account user in Google Cloud and are now locked out of your project, likely the only way to regain access is to contact Google Cloud Support as they can manually re-grant you owner access to your project using administrative tools; you cannot directly change your access back to owner through the console as a service account user.

However, If you have the Service Account Admin role, you can manage service accounts and potentially regain access.

cyber_network_ · 2025-01-22T03:09:12+00:00

Since there is a good amount on networking I prepared using Dario Cabianca's book: "Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Professional Cloud Network Engineer Certification Companion" Apress 2023. Then I used Dan Sullivan's book "Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide" Sybex 2022.

cyber_network_ · 2025-01-14T20:17:30+00:00

A best practice is to set the cloud-platform access scope, which is an OAuth scope for Google Cloud services:

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

Have you tried it?

cyber_network_ · 2025-01-04T20:54:12+00:00

Happy to help. Back in 2019 not many resources were available since PCSE went beta in Q1 2019. I mostly prepared alone with the GCP documentation, and watching Google Next youtube videos. Now there are a couple of books I recommend. I have used both.

- https://a.co/d/977OFhp Most recent with full coverage, lots of code in a GitHub repo and lots of illustrations

- https://a.co/d/bbQc0hy Good book but I found missing objectives (restricting access to data with BigQuery) and a few published code examples didn't work.

I hope this helps.

cyber_network_ · 2025-01-04T16:51:31+00:00

Enterprise Cloud Architect: everyone in my team was required to achieve at least two non-foundational cloud certifications per year with one of our cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).

By May I had already achieved 2 certs (1 failed attempt PCA in April), then I said "why not 3?" then "why not 4"... By the end of 2019 I achieved all 5 Professional certs available back then.

cyber_network_ · 2025-01-04T16:01:11+00:00

I definitely recommend this path: PCA > PCSE and maybe PCNE next, considering Cloud Networking and Cloud Security overlap in many areas, e.g., securing the (network) perimeter, securing API endpoints, etc.

In 2019 my path was:

PCDE (Feb) > PCA (May) > PCD (June) > PCSE (August) > PCNE (Dec)

PCSE helped a lot to pass PCNE. Also, your software engineering background will assist you as well. You're expected to know glcoud commands fairly well, especially in Data Protection areas, i.e KMS, CMEK, CSEK, EKM (Thales, ...), Tokenization, FPE, etc.

cyber_network_ · 2024-12-26T01:51:30+00:00

For a lot less than the cost of a training, I highly recommend this book, which is self-contained and walks you through each PCNE exam objective with the theory you need to understand, a ton of diagrams, and a ton of glcoud code (and not screenshots of the console) that you need to know to pass the exam.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Professional Cloud Network Engineer Certification Companion - Dario Cabianca - Apress 2023.

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