Stop, visualize and listen, our Looker hackathon is back with a brand new edition. This December 5th, we are kicking off Looker Hackathon 2023, a virtual two day event for developers, innovators and data scientists to collaborate, build, learn and inspire each other, as you design new innovative applications, tools and data experiences on Looker […]

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If you’ve had the chance to chat with Bard or another conversation AI tool in the last year, you probably, like me, walked away with a distinct impression that services like these are the future of enterprise technology. As new generative AI capabilities continue to become more readily accessible, you might now be wondering where […]

In this post, we’ll be showing how to manage BigQuery costs with budgets and custom quota – keep reading, or jump directly into tutorials for creating budgetsor setting custom quota! Early in your journey to build or modernize on the cloud, you’ll learn that cloud services are often pay-as-you-go; and running analytics on BigQuery is […]

When making changes to Terraform code that requires no alteration to deployed resources, the Terraform state needs to be updated. This process requires removing Terraform state, updating the Terraform code, then re-importing Terraform state from the existing resources. One of the times you might need to perform this operation is when there are new Terraform […]

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We should chat. Effective communication is the key to success, especially in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. Good communication forms the foundation for collaboration, innovation, and high-performing teams. Our DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) and Project Aristotle research demonstrate how effective communication, defined as the capacity to willingly share information and perspectives in an open […]

Software designers often need to model “real-world” entities such as organizations, managers, employees, etc. As part of this modeling, many-to-many relationships pop up often. They’re used to represent relationships where entities on both sides can have multiple related instances, e.g. a manager having multiple direct reports and an individual contributor with multiple dotted line managers. […]

Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, mission-critical, relational database service that offers transactional consistency at global scale with automatic, synchronous replication for high availability. Customers can connect their application to Spanner using Google built and supported open source Client Libraries. If you use any of the Spanner Client Libraries and you’re facing an issue where […]

Google Cloud BigQuery is a key service that helps you create a Data Warehouse that provides the scale and ease of querying large data sets. Let’s say that you have standardized on using BigQuery and have set up data pipelines to maintain the datasets. The next question would be to determine how best to make […]