PM at Google. BigQuery. All views are my own.
This is a quick recap of what’s launched in BigQuery over the past few weeks.
NUMERIC data type launched into Public Beta. This data type is useful if you’re doing financial reporting and require a precise money data…
Some good blogs on BigQuery. Get to grokking!
Blogs discussing the BigQuery service
Folks have been discussing BigQuery quite a bit these days, which is fantastic. But there’s a lot of STUFF to BigQuery — it’s a sophisticated, mature service with many moving pieces, and it’s easy to get lost!
The data analytics space is fascinating with healthy competition and increasing pace of innovation. One example is a novel idea of cross-organizational data sharing — leveraging pure separation of storage and compute to keep storage in one place and give organizations the ability to…
Why Google’s Answer to AWS Reserved Instances is a Big Deal
Update March 13: Two days later AWS responded to this move by relaxing rules about switching between instance types. However, this does nothing to alleviate restrictions around instance families and generations. You are still limited by network/disk/GPU/CPU…