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Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Develop Pipelines

AdvancedSkill Level
Updated 06/2026
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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70 Exercises
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Course Description

In this second installment of the Dataflow course series, we are going to be diving deeper on developing pipelines using the Beam SDK. We start with a review of Apache Beam concepts. Next, we discuss processing streaming data using windows, watermarks and triggers. We then cover options for sources and sinks in your pipelines, schemas to express your structured data, and how to do stateful transformations using State and Timer APIs. We move onto reviewing best practices that help maximize your pipeline performance. Towards the end of the course, we introduce SQL and Dataframes to represent your business logic in Beam and how to iteratively develop pipelines using Beam notebooks.

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1

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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Windows, Watermarks, and Triggers

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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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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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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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