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BigQuery + Dimensional Modeling: The Perfect Match — Part 2 of 2

Learn how BigQuery with Dimensional Modeling can help you better store, analyse, and understand your large datasets.

Lee Doolan

Aug 17

Direct VPC Egress with Cloud Run

The obsolescence of the serverless VPC access connector?

Alistair Grew

Aug 15

BigQuery + Dimensional Modeling: The Perfect Match — Part 1 of 2

Learn how BigQuery with Dimensional Modeling can help you better store, analyse, and understand your large datasets.

Lee Doolan

Aug 10

Should I use VPC Service Controls?

VPC-SC is a technical security capability in Google Cloud that helps to protect against data exfiltration and unauthorised access to data.

Ben Taylor

Aug 9

Managing multi-cloud Kubernetes with Anthos Attached Clusters

Managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across clouds is hard…but for GCP users, Anthos attached clusters can make life that little bit…

Stuart Barnett

Jul 21

How Google Cloud Workstations saved my demo… (and my bacon)

Google’s cloud based developer environments are a winner for road warrior devs — as well as those who employ them.

Stuart Barnett

Jul 17

CloudSQL Editions

Following BigQuery’s lead, CloudSQL now gets the Editions treatment…

Alistair Grew

Jul 14

Docker on MacOS with Multipass, for free, the easy way, without Homebrew

A lot of developers use MacBook Pros because they offer a good halfway house between the ease of third-party software installation of…

Chris Cunningham

Jul 13

BigQuery Storage Billing Models

Can you save on your BigQuery Storage costs? Let’s see by exploring the different pricing models and how to use the information available.

Ash Broadley

Jul 7

My First Apigee Environment

Apigee is a brilliant solution to deliver API’s to customers, internal developers, and external partners. In the past Apigee as an offering…

Sander Alberink

Jul 6

BigQuery Editions become Generally Available!

Hopefully, you’ve not been living under a rock for the past few months since Google publicly announced what is probably the biggest change…

Ash Broadley

Jul 5

Are Kubernetes days numbered?

…and if so — what is the future for containers?

Alistair Grew

Jun 20

Dataform, what’s the story?

Just exactly what is Google Cloud’s Dataform service and how easy is it to implement . . .

Lee Doolan

Jun 20

AI as a Learning Bridge: Navigating the Gap from Writing Code to Software Engineering

Embarking on a transformative journey from writing code to becoming a Software Engineer, I, a Software Developer with three years of…

Francina Schriek

Jun 8

Federating Google Cloud with Azure Active Directory

A practical guide to ensuring a single source of truth for identity.

Alistair Grew

Apr 20

Are Terraform’s days numbered?

An exploration of Kubernetes Resource Manager and the Google Config Connector

Alistair Grew

Apr 4

A review of the Google Datastream Service - Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL) to BigQuery

Datastream introduced the ability to seamlessly replicate data from Cloud SQL to BigQuery late in 2022. Given that (near) real time…

Keven Pinto

Mar 23

Crafting your DBT development workflow

DBT is a powerful tool but if you’re used to simply writing a SQL query and pushing it, getting used to its configuration and a vast amount…

Sam Morris

Mar 23

Introducing AppSheetApp: A Google Apps Script library/helper class for the AppSheet API

AppSheet is headlined as a no-code platform but this doesn’t mean for developers there aren’t coding opportunities. As part of AppSheet…

Martin Hawksey

Mar 17

Using Datastream as a Data Sync and DR tool

In my last blog we looked at how near real time BigQuery data sync across two regions could not be achieved using the dataset copy service…

Keven Pinto

Mar 14

Virtual Machines in 2023 and Google

I wanted to take some time to talk to you about Virtual Machines… I know, I know, they’re not as sexy as running things in the latest…

Ian Sheppard

Mar 1

Creating a Google Drive report in Google Sheets: Making Google Workspace Enterprise solutions with…

Think 10x — supercharging your Google Apps Script solutions by directly calling Google Workspace Enterprise APIs.

Martin Hawksey

Feb 21

BigQuery, Spark or Dataflow? A story of speed and other comparisons

Are you starting soon a new project and you wonder which of these technologies you should use? How do these processing engines compare…

Sourygna Luangsay

Feb 10

Making Data Driven Decisions…

Make effective data driven decisions, free of bias and influence.

James Gornall

Feb 6

Security Command Center Premium: Now more accessible

PAYG FTW

Brodie

Feb 3

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