Stop Your GCP Bill Before It Stops You
AI has made it almost too easy to spin up GCP services without thinking through the cost implications. Here's how I built a hard cap that actually cuts off spending - using Google's own recommended pattern.
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Career
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How to Handle Ambiguity?
Someone asked me how I handle ambiguity. Here's my honest answer - and why I'm not entirely sure it's right.
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Skills
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How a Hobby Makes You a Better Engineer
The process of hitting a ceiling, figuring out what's missing, and coming back stronger works the same way whether you're learning handstands or distributed systems.
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AI & Agents
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The Dawn of Agentic Data Workflows
Around 2021, if you wanted AI in a data workflow, you picked a vertical. Coding assistance. Data validation. Each was isolated. That constraint is gone now — and it changes everything.
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Productivity
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Gen AI Did the Boring Stuff So You Don't Have To
Code comments, unit tests, documentation, diagrams — the stuff that chronically didn't get done. Gen AI changed that completely, and the impact on data teams is bigger than most realize.
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Technology
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Goodbye Brittle Dashboards, Hello Conversational BI
I spent years building OLAP cubes. Carefully maintained conformed dimensions, aggregation tables, multidimensional models. That infrastructure was real work. Today, it's increasingly obsolete.
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Career
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The GitHub Repo That Could Change Your Career
I used to tell junior engineers to study for certifications. I don't say that anymore. Here's the advice I gave a co-op student last month: build something and put it on GitHub.
By Jeremy
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