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Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time. I feel like this book gets less fanfare than the Google SRE books but it’s just as valuable. Like Google’s SRE books, this book has a mixture of useful information, wonderful explanations, and Google-flavored navel gazing. What I liked: the first 16 chapters or so had me really engaged. I especially enjoyed the author’s clear definition of software engineering vs....

If you have a large Postgres database, consider trying Google Cloud BigQuery for OLAP-style reporting queries. database> COPY (<query_to_denomralize_report_data>) TO '<dest_filename>' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER; Then upload it to GCS: $ gsutil cp <dest_filename> gs://<dest_bucket>/<dest_filename> Then, follow Loading Data into BigQuery (with Google Cloud Storage). For this to work, you’ll have to define the schema and skip the first leading row. My most recent load job took 4 seconds, loading a very large CSV file....