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Abirami Sukumaran
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Abirami Sukumaran

Abirami Sukumaran is a lead developer advocate at Google, focusing on databases and data to AI journey with Google Cloud. She has over 17 years of experience in data management, data governance, and analytics across several industries in various roles from engineering to leadership, and has 3 patents filed in the data area. She believes in driving social and business impact with technology. She is also an international keynote, tech panel, and motivational speaker, including key events like Google I/O, Cloud NEXT, MLDS, GDS, Huddle Global, India Startup Festival, Women Developers Academy, and so on. She founded Code Vipassana, an award-winning, non-profit, tech-enablement program powered by Google and she runs with the support of Google Developer Communities GDG Cloud Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, and a few developer leads. She is pursuing her doctoral research in business administration with artificial intelligence, is a certified Yoga instructor, practitioner, and an Indian above everything else.
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Learning about BigQuery

BigQuery is a fully managed, completely serverless (no need to think about the underlying infrastructure), cost-effective, petabyte-scale enterprise data warehouse with built-in machine learning and BI analytics that works across clouds and sources and scales with your data. It is an important service for the transform (process, analyze) stage in the life cycle of your data.

An entire book can be dedicated to BigQuery and it still wouldn’t be sufficient to cover everything that BigQuery has to offer for your data and businesses in its fullest sense. We will take a look at the key features in the next section and try some of these hands-on in this chapter.

Features of BigQuery

In this section, I have tried to address the features that database practitioners and developers associate with the most:

  • With BigQuery, you can unify structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data and perform queries on them together. This means you can also...
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Abirami Sukumaran

Abirami Sukumaran is a lead developer advocate at Google, focusing on databases and data to AI journey with Google Cloud. She has over 17 years of experience in data management, data governance, and analytics across several industries in various roles from engineering to leadership, and has 3 patents filed in the data area. She believes in driving social and business impact with technology. She is also an international keynote, tech panel, and motivational speaker, including key events like Google I/O, Cloud NEXT, MLDS, GDS, Huddle Global, India Startup Festival, Women Developers Academy, and so on. She founded Code Vipassana, an award-winning, non-profit, tech-enablement program powered by Google and she runs with the support of Google Developer Communities GDG Cloud Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, and a few developer leads. She is pursuing her doctoral research in business administration with artificial intelligence, is a certified Yoga instructor, practitioner, and an Indian above everything else.
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