Apache Beam Streaming Windowing: Quiz
Ten questions on Beam's windowing methods, watermarks, triggers, and late data — with sourced explanations for every answer.
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Cloud Run Is Fine: When You Actually Need Kubernetes
An instructor at Next '26 shrugged and said Cloud Run is fine. He's mostly right. Here are the five things that actually justify reaching for Kubernetes instead, and why the two are closer to the same thing than the debate admits.
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Managing Data Products in Google Cloud's Knowledge Catalog
Dataplex's Knowledge Catalog turns data products into first-class, discoverable, requestable objects. A full field tour — finding, describing, sharing, and securing certified data products — plus the gotchas the docs skip.
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Finally Found a Way to Make a Monolithic Beam Pipeline Modular
For years I shipped Apache Beam pipelines as one giant file in a Dataflow Flex Template because custom containers never worked for me. The fix I had missed: a Flex Template is two images, a launcher and a worker, each with its own entrypoint.
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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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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.
By Jeremy
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