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BigQuery Denormalized Tables vs Star Schema: A Design Guide

October 4th, 2025 9 minute read

BigQuery Denormalized Tables vs Star Schema: A Design GuideIf you're designing a data warehouse in BigQuery, one of your first architectural decisions... more »

BigQuery Nested Fields vs Flat Tables: When to Use Each

October 3rd, 2025 9 minute read

BigQuery Nested Fields vs Flat Tables: When to Use EachEvery data engineer working with BigQuery eventually faces this question: should you normalize your... more »

BigQuery Partition Keys: Ingestion Time vs Column Values

October 3rd, 2025 9 minute read

BigQuery Partition Keys: Ingestion Time vs Column ValuesChoosing the right partition strategy in BigQuery directly affects query performance, storage costs,... more »

BigQuery Partitioning vs Clustering: When to Use Each

October 3rd, 2025 9 minute read

BigQuery Partitioning vs Clustering: When to Use EachWhen you design tables in BigQuery, you face a fundamental choice about how to organize your data.... more »

AI, ML, Deep Learning, and Generative AI: Defining terms for the Generative AI Leader Exam

Ben Makansi Ben Makansi September 6th, 2025 3 minute read

AI, ML, Deep Learning, and Generative AI: Defining terms for the Generative AI Leader ExamThe Google Cloud Generative AI Leader certification requires... more »

Generative AI Leader Practice Question: Understanding Data Types for Machine Learning

Ben Makansi Ben Makansi August 30th, 2025 3 minute read

Let’s go over an example question that could appear on Google Cloud’s new Generative AI Leader exam, which was released in May 2025.If you want more... more »

Generative AI Leader Practice Question on Google Cloud Agentspace

Ben Makansi Ben Makansi August 30th, 2025 3 minute read

Let’s go over an example question that could appear on Google Cloud’s new Generative AI Leader exam, which was released in May 2025.If you want more... more »

Generative AI Leader Practice Question: Unifying Airline Customer Support

Ben Makansi Ben Makansi August 30th, 2025 3 minute read

Let's go over an example question that could appear on Google Cloud's new Generative AI Leader exam, which was released in May 2025.If you want more... more »

Understanding Vertex AI Batch Prediction for the Professional ML Engineer Exam

Ben Makansi Ben Makansi August 24th, 2025 6 minute read

Understanding Vertex AI Batch Prediction for the Professional ML Engineer ExamWhen you're building machine learning systems on Google Cloud Platform,... more »