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Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Develop Pipelines

AdvancedSkill Level
Updated 05/2026
Develop data pipelines with Apache Beam and Dataflow. Cover transforms, windowing, I/O connectors, schemas, state APIs, Beam SQL, and notebooks.
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65 Exercises
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Course Description

Develop data processing pipelines using Apache Beam and Dataflow. This course covers Beam basics, utility transforms, DoFn lifecycle, windowing, watermarks, triggers, I/O connectors, schemas, state and timer APIs, best practices, Beam SQL, DataFrames, and Beam Notebooks. Includes hands-on Python labs.

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Introduction

This module introduces the course and course outline
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Beam Concepts Review

Review main concepts of Apache Beam, and how to apply them to write your own data processing pipelines.
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3

Windows, Watermarks, and Triggers

In this module, you will learn about how to process data in streaming with Dataflow. For that, there are three main concepts that you need to learn: how to group data in windows, the importance of watermark to know when the window is ready to produce results, and how you can control when and how many times the window will emit output.
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Sources and Sinks

In this module, you will learn about what makes sources and sinks in Dataflow. The module will go over some examples of TextIO, FileIO, BigQueryIO, PubsubIO, KafKaIO, BigtableIO, Avro IO, and Splittable DoFn. The module will also point out some useful features associated with each I/O.
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Schemas

This module will introduce schemas, which give developers a way to express structured data in their Beam pipelines.
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6

State and Timers

This module covers State and Timers, two powerful features that you can use in your DoFn to implement stateful transformations.
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Dataflow SQL and DataFrames

This modules introduces two new APIs to represent your business logic in Beam: SQL and Dataframes.
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9

Beam Notebooks

This module will cover Beam notebooks, an interface for Python developers to onboard onto the Beam SDK and develop their pipelines iteratively in a Jupyter notebook environment.
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Summary

This module provides a recap of the course
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