What is Apache Beam?

Apache Beam is a flexible and open source tool that unifies batch and streaming parallel data processing, in the programming language of your choice. Welcome to Getting Started with Apache Beam, a series where we’ll introduce you to key concepts of Apache Beam. In this first episode, we’ll discuss the reason why Apache Beam exists and then we’ll take a look at how it works. Watch to discover the power of Apache Beam and learn how to get started processing data for your next project!

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Beam origins and overview
2:00 - Key concepts in Beam
5:01 - Wrap up

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product: Cloud - General; fullname: Mark Mirchandani, Debi Cabrera;

[googlecloudtech]

Do you have any experience using Apache Beam for your projects? Let us know in the comments below.

[mykolamorozov]

Cool! Waiting for more videos about Apache Beam and streaming stuff. Especially about how to write unit tests for test streaming behaviour in Python.

[EduardoMartinez-leme]

I love work with this framework, is amazing!

[dheer]

Great introduction to Apache Beam and thanks for the Beam college link didn't know that existed :)

[karolwozniak]

Is DataFlow a good candidate to be the first component that calls external API, that is outside the GCP environment? Let's assume that this is a batch processing case.

[amaniwhite]

Hey there Google users! Hope you enjoy the video.

[googlecloudtech]

Do you have any experience using Beam for your projects? Let us know in the comments below.

[SCRT]

“I wish the best to everyone who is early and who found this comment” 💕