Tag Archives: Database

Creating a serverless ETL nirvana using Google BigQuery

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Shine Technologies

Quite a while back, Google released two new features in BigQuery. One was federated sources. A federated source allows you to query external sources, like files in Google Cloud Storage (GCS), directly using SQL. They also gave us user defined functions (UDF) in that … Continue reading →

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The Joys of Redis

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Shine Technologies

“In our (admittedly limited) experience, Redis is so fast that the slowest part of a cache lookup is the time spent reading and writing bytes to the network” – stackoverflow.com Can Databases Be Exciting To Work With? It’s very rare … Continue reading →

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