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You are designing an Apache Beam pipeline to enrich data from Cloud Pub/Sub with static reference data from BigQuery. The reference data is small enough to fit in memory on a single worker. The pipeli
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Submitted by dimitri_ru· Mar 30, 2026Designing data processing systems
Question
You are designing an Apache Beam pipeline to enrich data from Cloud Pub/Sub with static reference data from BigQuery. The reference data is small enough to fit in memory on a single worker. The pipeline should write enriched results to BigQuery for analysis. Which job type and transforms should this pipeline use?
Options
- ABatch job, PubSubIO, side-inputs
- BStreaming job, PubSubIO, JdbcIO, side-outputs
- CStreaming job, PubSubIO, BigQueryIO, side-inputs
- DStreaming job, PubSubIO, BigQueryIO, side-outputs
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#Apache Beam#Streaming pipelines#Side inputs#Data enrichment