Re:Reducing BigQuery Costs
by dharmab on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @12:07AM
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I'm glad you learned that lesson for less than $1k. I think everyone who's ever worked with large amounts of data in BigQuery has a story like that, and sometimes the number is six or seven digits.
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Most of the time, it feels a little bit embarrassing, but the cost is just a very small part of your regular salary and overall operating cost. If your boss hits you with this, they don't have the correct perspective and priorities.
My record is $20k and it raised some eyebrows. But it was not really a mistake, just a sub-optimal backfill.
The data was filling a need for making appropriate business decisions, and compared to all the money lost by business developers making investments on a hunch, this was a very small bump in the road.