Apache Beam: Data Processing, Data Pipelines, Dataflow and Flex Templates

In this first article, we’re exploring Apache Beam, from a simple pipeline to a more complicated one, using GCP Dataflow. Let’s learn what PTransform, PCollection, GroupByKey and Dataflow Flex Template mean

Stefano Bosisio
Towards Data Science
19 min readFeb 12, 2024

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Machine Learning Engineer, PhD in Computational Chemistry. My writing covers neuroscience research, coding tutorial and social-media analyses