I’ve built Serverless Showdown systems for three different companies. Each time, I learned something new. Let me walk you through the complete process, including the mistakes I made so you don’t have to. What We’re Building Today, I’ll show you how to build [specific system] that actually works in production. This isn’t a toy example—it’s… Continue reading
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BigQuery Unleashed: Building Enterprise Data Warehouses That Scale to Petabytes
Introduction: BigQuery stands as Google Cloud’s crown jewel—a serverless, petabyte-scale data warehouse that has fundamentally changed how enterprises approach analytics. This comprehensive guide explores BigQuery’s enterprise capabilities, from columnar storage and slot-based execution to advanced features like BigQuery ML, BI Engine, and real-time streaming. After architecting data platforms across all major cloud providers, I’ve found… Continue reading
The Cloud Bill Always Comes Due: Hard Lessons in FinOps from a Decade of Enterprise Cloud Migrations
The first time I saw a cloud bill exceed a million dollars in a single month, I knew something had fundamentally changed about how we needed to think about infrastructure. This wasn’t a massive enterprise with unlimited budgets—it was a mid-sized company that had enthusiastically embraced “cloud-first” without understanding what that commitment actually meant financially.… Continue reading