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Designing and Building a Modern Data Platform on Google Cloud

Alex Lim
24 min readDec 21, 2020

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Why you should use a data platform and not just a warehouse, and how to map cloud layers to the Google Cloud Platform.

Designing and Building a Modern Data Platform on Google Cloud
Designing and Building a Modern Data Platform on Google Cloud

Now that you understand the value of building a data platform on Google, you’ll likely want to read more on best-practices on implementation. In this article, we outline an introduction to Google Cloud services, why you should use a data platform, and not just a warehouse, and how to map cloud layers to the Google Cloud Platform.

Designing, deploying, and managing a cloud data platform is complicated, but Google-cloud certified experts like us can help at every stage of your data journey. Learn more about Pythian’s Cloud solutions for Google Cloud.

Traditional thinking to solve modern problems rarely provides the best solution.

The advent of the cloud has radically changed the world of analytics-making it possible to integrate, transform, and analyze any type of data from any source at scale. But designing these enterprise data platforms, especially when cloud services are changing at almost warp speed, can be challenging.

We, at Pythian, have been at the forefront of this new world for six years and we’ve been involved in almost 100 projects-enough to say we know what…

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Alex Lim
Alex Lim

Written by Alex Lim

Technology Blogger writing about emerging technologies (pupuweb.com) and marketing/lifestyle (paminy.com)

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