Enterprise Pipeline Orchestration with Cloud Composer and Workflows
Build a production-ready GCP data orchestration layer with Managed Service for Apache Airflow, Cloud Workflows, Dataform, and BigQuery.
Tharun Vempati
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Oct 11, 2026
9 min read
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21 engineering guides & blueprints
Building a Medallion Lakehouse with Dataform (Hands-On Lab)
Build a production BigQuery Medallion Lakehouse with Google Cloud Dataform: incremental SQLX models, late-arrival deduplication, quarantine tables, assertions, and release workflows.
#Data Engineering
#GCP
#BigQuery
Tharun Vempati
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Oct 10, 2026
14 min read
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.
#Data Engineering
#GCP
#BigQuery
Tharun Vempati
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Oct 08, 2026
13 min read
Building a Production-Ready Real-Time Streaming Pipeline
Build a resilient GCP streaming pipeline with Pub/Sub, Apache Beam on Dataflow, raw-event landing, quarantine handling, event-time windows, and BigQuery Storage Write API sinks.
#Data Engineering
#GCP
#Pub/Sub
Tharun Vempati
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Oct 07, 2026
9 min read
Choosing a Reliable Real-Time Ingestion Path
A practical guide to choosing between Pub/Sub BigQuery subscriptions, Dataflow, the BigQuery Storage Write API, and batch loads—without over-engineering the path.
#Data Engineering
#GCP
#Pub/Sub
Tharun Vempati
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Oct 04, 2026
8 min read
Building the Production Storage & Access Layer (Hands-On Lab)
A practical, end-to-end GCP data engineering lab covering Cloud Storage, BigLake external connections, partitioned and clustered BigQuery, materialized views, Time Travel, and authorized views.
#Data Engineering
#GCP
#BigQuery
Tharun Vempati
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Sep 30, 2026
14 min read
From Vertex AI to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform: Build a Travel Intent Parser with Express Mode
Explore Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Express Mode, compare API keys with ADC, and build a schema-constrained travel-intent parser in Python.
#Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
#Express Mode
#Vertex AI
Tharun Vempati
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Sep 26, 2026
9 min read
The Core Storage & Access Building Blocks Demystified
A step-by-step architectural guide to core Google Cloud data engineering storage and access primitives. From Cloud Storage to partitioned BigQuery, materialized views, and authorized views.
#Data Engineering
#GCP
#BigQuery
Tharun Vempati
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Sep 20, 2026
25 min read
Java KeyStores, Cert-Manager & Zero Trust
Configure production mTLS for Kubernetes and microservices: Java KeyStore vs TrustStore, cert-manager automation, PKIX path building troubleshooting, and recovery.
#TLS
#mTLS
#Kubernetes
Tharun Vempati
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Aug 16, 2026
16 min read
The Modern Handshake (TLS 1.2 vs 1.3), Cipher Suites & SSL Troubleshooting
Master the TLS handshake packet-by-packet: 1-RTT vs 2-RTT flows, ECDHE key exchange, cipher suites, SNI routing, and practical OpenSSL debugging one-liners.
#TLS
#SSL
#Networking
Tharun Vempati
·
Aug 15, 2026
11 min read
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