GenBI: Three Shifts That Could Change How You Think About BI Implementation
At Google Cloud Next '26, a conversation about genBI made me rethink nearly 20 years of BI assumptions. Here are three shifts worth considering.
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Career
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What I'm Actually Looking for When I Interview a Data QA/QE Engineer
I've been interviewing QA/QE candidates lately, and the bar is not what I expected to find. Here's what I'm actually evaluating - shared in the spirit of helping the right people level up.
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Technology
3 min read
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.
By Jeremy
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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.
By Jeremy
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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.
By Jeremy
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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.
By Jeremy
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Productivity
2 min read
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.
By Jeremy
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Technology
2 min read
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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