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Data Engineering on GCP (Part 5): Medallion Architecture with Dataform and dbt

Build a reliable BigQuery transformation layer with Medallion architecture, Dataform or dbt, incremental processing, deduplication, and practical data-quality controls.

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Data Engineering on GCP (Part 5): Medallion Architecture with Dataform and dbt
Key Architecture Decisions & Takeaways
  • Production-tested architectures designed for zero-downtime scale
  • Battle-tested trade-off comparisons with latency and cost metrics
  • Step-by-step hands-on blueprints reproducible in live environments
Tharun Vempati
Tharun Vempati · Oct 08, 2026
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Tharun Vempati

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GCP Professional Cloud Architect · CKA · Red Hat EX280

Practitioner specializing in distributed backend systems, Kubernetes orchestration, and cloud infrastructure delivery. GCloud Cafe is an independent engineering journal documenting reproducible architectures, hands-on lab experiments, and real-world production engineering lessons.

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