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BigQuery is nice but it's definitely a major foot-gun in terms of cost. It's surprisingly easy to rack up high costs with say a misconfigured dashboard or a dev
by jfim 2y ago
BigQuery is nice but it's definitely a major foot-gun in terms of cost. It's surprisingly easy to rack up high costs with say a misconfigured dashboard or a developer just testing stuff.
- dekhn 2y agoFrankly I think this is just a sign that it's a power tool for power users.
- mrgaro 2y agoDefinitively agree here. Once the data is in BigQuery, people will start doing ad-hoc queries and building Grafana dashboards on top of it. And sooner or later (usually sooner) somebody will build a fancy Grafana dashboard and set it to refresh every 5 second and you will not notice it until it's too late.