It allows me to test solutions locally using runners like Direct Runner without having to start a Dataflow job, which can be costly.
Google Cloud Dataflow offers scalable streaming and data pipelines with programming flexibility for any language, appealing to programmers with scripting skills. Its cost-effective, pay-as-you-go model is competitively priced against other batch-processing engines. Seamless integration within Google Cloud Platform enhances ease of use. Though praised for issue resolution, its setup and integration, particularly with Kafka topics, could improve. Better error logging, debugging, and schema design flexibility for NoSQL data are also needed.
