val.town is really cool. I was able to quickly add a “backend” to push thoughts to this static site

These are some notes on the tradeoffs and best practices between On Demand pricing vs Editions pricing.

A small TIL about Python profiling.

SQL is an amazing language, it lets you declaratively say what you want, and the engine figures out for you the best way to return it to you. Or should I say, it figures out the best way to return it to you given the information it has and the capabilities of the engine itself.

In this post, we’ll discuss a performance optimization technique for BigQuery (also other advanced enough Enteprise Data Warehouses and databases support SEMI JOINS, but I'll focus on BigQuery since it's the one I use the most these days): using semi joins.

IN and EXISTS often produce the same result, but when negated and dealing with NULL values, they behave differently.