Join Sign in

David Salomon Martinez Valladares

Member since 2022

Diamond League

19155 points
Preparing for your Professional Data Engineer Journey Earned ינו 23, 2025 EST
Build Data Lakes and Data Warehouses on Google Cloud Earned ינו 23, 2025 EST
Introduction to Data Engineering on Google Cloud Earned ינו 14, 2025 EST
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned מאי 21, 2024 EDT
Google Workspace Data Governance Earned פבר 21, 2024 EST
Google Workspace Security Earned פבר 19, 2024 EST
Configure your Workplace: Google Workspace for IT Admins Earned פבר 19, 2024 EST
Google Workspace Core Services Earned פבר 19, 2024 EST
Google Workspace User and Resource Management Earned פבר 19, 2024 EST
Certification Learning Path: Professional Cloud Architect Earned יונ 5, 2023 EDT
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations Earned מאי 31, 2023 EDT
API Design and Fundamentals of Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform Earned מאי 30, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud IAM and Networking for Azure Professionals Earned מאי 29, 2023 EDT
Developing a Google SRE Culture Earned מאי 29, 2023 EDT
Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage Earned מאי 28, 2023 EDT
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine Earned מאי 26, 2023 EDT
Set Up a Google Cloud Network Earned מאי 25, 2023 EDT
Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud Earned מאי 22, 2023 EDT
The Modern Data Platform and LookML Earned מאי 22, 2023 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned מאי 20, 2023 EDT
Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud Earned מאי 19, 2023 EDT
Preparing for your Professional Cloud Architect Journey Earned מאי 16, 2023 EDT
Understanding Google Cloud Security and Operations - בעברית Earned מאי 8, 2023 EDT
Infrastructure and Application Modernization with Google Cloud - בעברית Earned מאי 8, 2023 EDT
Innovating with Data and Google Cloud - בעברית Earned מאי 6, 2023 EDT
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud - בעברית Earned מאי 5, 2023 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Analysis Earned יול 19, 2022 EDT
Driving Data Culture and Designing Dashboards Earned יול 8, 2022 EDT
Achieving Business Outcomes with Looker Earned יול 8, 2022 EDT
Looker Explained Earned יול 8, 2022 EDT
Google Sheets - Advanced Topics Earned יול 7, 2022 EDT
Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process Earned יול 7, 2022 EDT
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine Earned יונ 8, 2022 EDT
Develop Your Google Cloud Network Earned מאי 31, 2022 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned מאי 31, 2022 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned מאי 27, 2022 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned מאי 18, 2022 EDT
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation Earned מאי 18, 2022 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services Earned מאי 15, 2022 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation Earned מאי 12, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned מאי 6, 2022 EDT
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey Earned אפר 21, 2022 EDT

This course helps learners create a study plan for the PDE (Professional Data Engineer) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.

Learn more

While the traditional approaches of using data lakes and data warehouses can be effective, they have shortcomings, particularly in large enterprise environments. This course introduces the concept of a data lakehouse and the Google Cloud products used to create one. A lakehouse architecture uses open-standard data sources and combines the best features of data lakes and data warehouses, which addresses many of their shortcomings.

Learn more

In this course, you learn about data engineering on Google Cloud, the roles and responsibilities of data engineers, and how those map to offerings provided by Google Cloud. You also learn about ways to address data engineering challenges.

Learn more

Complete the introductory Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine and configuring network and application load balancers.

Learn more

This course equips learners with skills to govern data within their Google Workspace environment. Learners will explore data loss prevention rules in Gmail and Drive to prevent data leakage. They will then learn how to use Google Vault for data retention, preservation, and retrieval purposes. Next, they will learn how to configure data regions and export settings to align with regulations. Finally, learners will discover how to classify data using labels for enhanced organization and security.

Learn more

This course empowers learners to secure their Google Workspace environment. Learners will implement strong password policies and two-step verification to govern user access. They will then utilize the security investigation tool to proactively identify and respond to security risks. Next, they will manage third-party app access and mobile devices to ensure security. Finally, learners will enforce email security and compliance measures to protect organizational data.

Learn more

Earn a skill badge by completing the Configure your Workplace: Google Workspace for IT Admins quest, where you will get try out the Admin role for Workspace and learn to provision Groups, manage applications, security, and manage Meet. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge quest, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

Learn more

This course was designed to give learners a comprehensive understanding of Google Workspace core services. Learners will explore enabling, disabling, and configuring settings for these services, including Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, Chat, and Docs. Next, they'll learn how to deploy and manage Gemini to empower their users. Finally, learners will examine use cases for AppSheet and Apps Script to automate tasks and extend the functionality of Google Workspace applications.

Learn more

This course was designed to provide an understanding of user and resource management in Google Workspace. Learners will explore the configuration of organizational units to align with their organization's needs. Additionally, learners will discover how to manage various types of Google Groups. They will also develop expertise in managing domain settings within Google Workspace. Finally, learners will master the optimization and structuring of resources within their Google Workspace environment.

Learn more

Good news! There’s a new updated version of this learning path available for you!Open the new Professional Cloud Architect Certification Learning Path to begin, once you’ve selected the new path all your current progress will be reflected in the new version.

Learn more

In this course, "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations," you get a review of the layout and principles of Google Cloud, followed by an introduction to creating and managing software containers and an introduction to the architecture of Kubernetes. This is the first course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads course.

Learn more

In this course, you learn how to design APIs, and how to use OpenAPI specifications to document them. You learn about the API life cycle, and how the Apigee API platform helps you manage all aspects of the life cycle. You learn about how APIs can be designed using API proxies, and how APIs are packaged as API products to be used by app developers. Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to design, build, secure, deploy, and manage API solutions using Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform. This is the first course of the Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform series. After completing this course, enroll in the API Security on Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform course.

Learn more

This is the first course of a four-course series for cloud architects and engineers with existing Azure knowledge, and it compares Google Cloud and Azure solutions and guides professionals on their use. This course focuses on Identity and Access Management (IAM) and networking in Google Cloud. The learners apply the knowledge of access management and networking in Azure to explore the similarities and differences with access management and networking in Google Cloud. Learners get hands-on practice building and managing Google Cloud resources.

Learn more

In many IT organizations, incentives are not aligned between developers, who strive for agility, and operators, who focus on stability. Site reliability engineering, or SRE, is how Google aligns incentives between development and operations and does mission-critical production support. Adoption of SRE cultural and technical practices can help improve collaboration between the business and IT. This course introduces key practices of Google SRE and the important role IT and business leaders play in the success of SRE organizational adoption.

Learn more

Earn a skill badge by completing the Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage to demonstrate skills in the following: deploy a publicly accessible website using Apache web servers, configure a Compute Engine VM using startup scripts, configure secure RDP using a Windows Bastion host and firewall rules, build and deploy a Docker image to a Kubernetes cluster and then update it, and create a CloudSQL instance and import a MySQL database. This skill badge is a great resource for understanding topics that will appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification exam.

Learn more

Complete the intermediate Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and managing multi-tenant clusters, monitoring resource usage by namespace, configuring cluster and pod autoscaling for efficiency, setting up load balancing for optimal resource distribution, and implementing liveness and readiness probes to ensure application health and cost-effectiveness.

Learn more

Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up a Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn how to perform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud Platform - create a custom network, add subnets firewall rules, then create VMs and test the latency when they communicate with each other.

Learn more

This course provides an introduction to using Terraform for Google Cloud. It enables learners to describe how Terraform can be used to implement infrastructure as code and to apply some of its key features and functionalities to create and manage Google Cloud infrastructure. Learners will get hands-on practice building and managing Google Cloud resources using Terraform.

Learn more

This course provides an introduction to databases and summarized the differences in the main database technologies. This course will also introduce you to Looker and how Looker scales as a modern data platform. In the lessons, you will build and maintain standard Looker data models and establish the foundation necessary to learn Looker's more advanced features.

Learn more

Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in Dataproc, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API.

Learn more

This course teaches participants techniques for monitoring and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud. Using a combination of presentations, demos, hands-on labs, and real-world case studies, attendees gain experience with full-stack monitoring, real-time log management and analysis, debugging code in production, tracing application performance bottlenecks, and profiling CPU and memory usage.

Learn more

This course helps learners create a study plan for the PCA (Professional Cloud Architect) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.

Learn more

הקורס בוחן ניהול עלויות, אבטחה ותפעול בענן. ראשית, מוסבר איך עסקים יכולים לרכוש שירותי IT מספק שירותי ענן ולשמר חלק מהתשתית שלהם או לבחור לא לשמר אותה בכלל. שנית, הקורס מתאר איך האחריות על אבטחת נתונים מתחלקת בין ספק שירותי הענן לעסק, וסוקר את אבטחת ההגנה לעומק (defense-in-depth) שמובנית ב-Google Cloud. לבסוף, הקורס מתייחס לכך שצוותי IT ומנהלי העסק צריכים לשנות את החשיבה על ניהול משאבי IT בענן, ונוגע באופן שבו כלי ניטור המשאבים ב-Google Cloud יכולים לסייע להם לשמור על שליטה וניראות בסביבת הענן שלהם.

Learn more

בארגונים מסורתיים רבים משתמשים במערכות ובאפליקציות מדורות קודמים, וקשה לבצע באמצעותן התאמה לעומס ופעולות מהירות הדרושות כדי לעמוד בציפיות מודרניות של לקוחות. מנהיגים עסקיים וקובעי מדיניות IT צריכים כל הזמן לבחור בין תחזוקה של מערכות מדורות קודמים לבין השקעה במוצרים ובשירותים חדשים. בקורס הזה נבחן את האתגרים הנובעים משימוש בתשתית IT מיושנת, ואיך בעלי עסקים יכולים לבצע מודרניזציה של תשתיות בעזרת טכנולוגיית ענן. הקורס מתחיל בהבנה מעמיקה של אפשרויות המחשוב השונות הזמינות בענן ופירוט היתרונות של כל אחת מהאפשרויות. לאחר מכן נבחן את האפשרויות למודרניזציה של האפליקציות ושל ממשקי API (ממשק תכנות יישומים). בקורס מתוארים גם מגוון פתרונות של Google Cloud שיכולים לשפר את תהליך פיתוח המערכות וניהולן בעסקים שונים, כמו Compute Engine,‏ App Engine ו-Apigee.

Learn more

טכנולוגיית הענן לבדה מספקת לעסק חלק קטן בלבד מהערך האמיתי שלה. כשהיא משולבת עם נתונים בנפח רב מאוד, נוצרת העוצמה שמאפשרת להפיק ערך וליצור חוויות חדשות ללקוחות. במסגרת הקורס הזה תלמדו מהם נתונים, איך השתמשו בהם בעבר בחברות לצורך קבלת החלטות ולמה הם קריטיים כל כך ללמידה חישובית. בנוסף, בקורס הזה יוצגו ללומדים מושגים טכניים כמו נתונים מובְנים ולא מובְנים, מסד נתונים, מחסן נתונים (data warehouse) ואגמי נתונים (data lakes). בהמשך, הקורס יעסוק במוצרי Google Cloud הנפוצים ביותר בתחום הנתונים, ובמוצרים כאלה ששיעור השימוש בהם גדל במהירות הרבה ביותר.

Learn more

מהי טכנולוגיית ענן ומהו מדע הנתונים? וחשוב יותר, איך הם יכולים לעזור לכם, לצוות שלכם ולעסק שלכם? קורס המבוא הזה בנושא טרנספורמציה דיגיטלית מתאים למי שרוצה ללמוד על טכנולוגיית הענן כדי להתמקצע ולהצטיין בעבודתו וכדי לעזור בפיתוח העתיד של העסק. בקורס יוגדרו מונחי יסוד כגון הענן, נתונים וטרנספורמציה דיגיטלית. בנוסף, נבחן דוגמאות של חברות מרחבי העולם שמשתמשות בטכנולוגיית הענן כדי לבצע טרנספורמציה בעסק. הקורס כולל סקירה של סוגי ההזדמנויות שיש לחברות ושל האתגרים הנפוצים שחברות מתמודדות איתם במהלך טרנספורמציה דיגיטלית. הקורס גם מדגים איך עמודי התווך של פתרונות Google Cloud יכולים לעזור בתהליך. חשוב לומר: טרנספורמציה דיגיטלית לא קשורה רק לשימוש בטכנולוגיות חדשות. כדי הטרנספורמציה תהיה מלאה, ארגונים צריכים גם ליישם חדשנות ולפתח דפוס חשיבה שמקדם חדשנות בכל התחומים והצוותים. השיטות המומלצות המתוארות בקורס יעזרו לכם להשיג את המטרה הזו.

Learn more

Want to learn the core SQL and visualization skills of a Data Analyst? Interested in how to write queries that scale to petabyte-size datasets? Take the BigQuery for Analyst Quest and learn how to query, ingest, optimize, visualize, and even build machine learning models in SQL inside of BigQuery.

Learn more

This course provides an iterative approach to plan, build, launch, and grow a modern, scalable, mature analytics ecosystem and data culture in an organization that consistently achieves established business outcomes. Users will also learn how to design and build a useful, easy-to-use dashboard in Looker. It assumes experience with everything covered in our Getting Started with Looker and Building Reports in Looker courses.

Learn more

In this course, we’ll show you how organizations are aligning their BI strategy to most effectively achieve business outcomes with Looker. We'll follow four iterative steps: Plan, Build, Launch, Grow, and provide resources to take into your own services delivery to build Looker with the goal of achieving business outcomes.

Learn more

By the end of this course, you should be able to articulate Looker's value propositions and what makes it different from other analytics tools in the market. You should also be able to explain how Looker works, and explain the standard components of successful service delivery.

Learn more

This course builds on some of the concepts covered in the earlier Google Sheets course. In this course, you will learn how to apply and customize themes In Google Sheets, and explore conditional formatting options. You will learn about some of Google Sheets’ advanced formulas and functions. You will explore how to create formulas using functions, and you will also learn how to reference and validate your data in a Google Sheet. Spreadsheets can hold millions of numbers, formulas, and text. Making sense of all of that data can be difficult without a summary or visualization. This course explores the data visualization options in Google Sheets, such as charts and pivot tables. Google Forms are online surveys used to collect data and provide the opportunity for quick data analysis. You will explore how Forms and Sheets work together by connecting collected Form data to a spreadsheet, or by creating a Form from an existing spreadsheet.

Learn more

This course equips students to build highly reliable and efficient solutions on Google Cloud using proven design patterns. It is a continuation of the Architecting with Google Compute Engine or Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine courses and assumes hands-on experience with the technologies covered in either of those courses. Through a combination of presentations, design activities, and hands-on labs, participants learn to define and balance business and technical requirements to design Google Cloud deployments that are highly reliable, highly available, secure, and cost-effective.

Learn more

Welcome to the Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine course. If you're interested in Kubernetes, a software layer that sits between your applications and your hardware infrastructure, then you’re in the right place! Google Kubernetes Engine brings you Kubernetes as a managed service on Google Cloud. The goal of this course is to introduce the basics of Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, as it’s commonly referred to, and how to get applications containerized and running in Google Cloud. The course starts with a basic introduction to Google Cloud, and is then followed by an overview of containers and Kubernetes, Kubernetes architecture, and Kubernetes operations.

Learn more

Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop your Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you learn multiple ways to deploy and monitor applications including how to: explore IAM roles and add/remove project access, create VPC networks, deploy and monitor Compute Engine VMs, write SQL queries, deploy and monitor VMs in Compute Engine, and deploy applications using Kubernetes with multiple deployment approaches.

Learn more

Complete the introductory Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine and configuring network and application load balancers.

Learn more

Complete the intermediate Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources with Terraform configurations, effective state management (local and remote), and modularizing Terraform code for reusability and organization.

Learn more

Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud skill badge course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub.

Learn more

This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including securely interconnecting networks, load balancing, autoscaling, infrastructure automation and managed services.

Learn more

This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services. This course also covers deploying practical solutions including customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.

Learn more

This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, virtual machines and applications services. You will learn how to use the Google Cloud through the console and Cloud Shell. You'll also learn about the role of a cloud architect, approaches to infrastructure design, and virtual networking configuration with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Projects, Networks, Subnetworks, IP addresses, Routes, and Firewall rules.

Learn more

Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.

Learn more

This course helps you structure your preparation for the Associate Cloud Engineer exam. You will learn about the Google Cloud domains covered by the exam and how to create a study plan to improve your domain knowledge.

Learn more