Due to me being kind of a big deal around here, I was sent to Google Next 18 last week. It's…
Introducing column based partitioning in BigQuery
Some background When we started using Google BigQuery - almost five years ago now - it didn't have any partitioning…
Using Google Cloud AutoML to classify poisonous Australian spiders
Warning: This post contains pictures of spiders (and Spiderman)! Google’s new Cloud AutoML Vision is a new machine learning service…
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Trams, Shiners and Googlers!
Shine's good friend Felipe Hoffa from Google was in Melbourne recently, and he took the time to catch up with…
Scheduling BigQuery jobs: this time using Cloud Storage & Cloud Functions
Intro Post update: My good friend Lak over at Google has come up with a fifth option! He suggests using…
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Getting ya music recommendation groove on with Google Cloud Platform!
Intro Recommendation systems are found under the hood of many popular services and websites. The e-commerce and retail industry use…
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Scheduling BigQuery jobs using Google Apps Script
Do you recoil in horror at the thought of running yet another mundane SQL script just so a table is…
To Partition or not to Partition
I have been using BigQuery for over 2 years now at Shine. I've found it to be a great tool…
BigQuery & new users – the top “WTF!?” moments
"What the Fudge?" I use Google BigQuery a lot. On a daily basis I run dozens of queries, use it…
Beam me up Google – porting your Dataflow applications to 2.x
Will this post interest me? If you use (or intend to use) Google Cloud Dataflow, you've heard about Apache Beam, or…
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