BigQuery is a powerful and scalable petabyte-scale data warehouse known for its efficient SQL query capabilities, and is widely adopted by organizations worldwide. While BigQuery offers exceptional performance, cost optimization remains critical for our customers. Together, Google Cloud and Deloitte have extensive experience assisting clients in optimizing BigQuery costs. In a previous blog post, we […]

BigQuery makes it easy for you to gain insights from your data, regardless of its scale, size or location. BigQuery Data Transfer Service (DTS) is a fully managed service that automates the loading of data into BigQuery from a variety of sources. DTS supports a wide range of data sources, including first party data sources […]

As Kubernetes adoption grows, so do the challenges of managing costs for medium and large-scale environments. The State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization report highlights a compelling trend: “Elite performers take advantage of cloud discounts 16.2x more than Low performers.” There are probably lots of reasons for this, but a couple might be these teams’ in-house […]

Students pursuing undergraduate degrees in engineering, computer science, IT, and other related fields: Are you curious about how to apply training and certifications to your real-life, day-to-day experience, or to upskill your technical capabilities? If so, this blog is for you. In September and October 2023, approximately 100k students from 700 educational campuses in India […]

The recent growth in distributed, compute-intensive ML applications has prompted data scientists and ML practitioners to find easy ways to prototype and develop their ML models. Running your Jupyter notebooks and JupyterHub on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) can provide a way to run your solution with security and scalability built-in as core elements of the […]

As part of BigQuery’s integrated suite of capabilities; Dataflow ML enables scalable local and remote inference with batch and streaming pipelines, as well as facilitating data preparation for model training and processing the results of model predictions. Our new Dataflow ML Starter project provides all of the essential scaffolding and boilerplate required to quickly and […]

Data is increasingly valuable, powering critical dashboards, machine learning applications, and even large language models (LLMs). Conversely, that means every minute of data downtime — the period of time data is wrong, incomplete, or inaccessible — is more and more costly. For example, a data pipeline failure at a digital advertising platform company could result […]

Businesses generate massive amounts of speech data every day, from customer calls to product demos to sales pitches. This data can transform your business by improving customer satisfaction, helping you prioritize product improvements and streamline business processes. While AI models have improved in the past few months, connecting speech data to these models in a […]

Cloud computing has become an essential part of many businesses and, as a Technical Account Manager, I have seen firsthand how cloud computing can help businesses save money and improve their agility. However, one of the challenges that businesses face when moving to the cloud is forecasting their cloud costs. If you are not careful, […]

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