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Newsvendor Model in BigQuery Capacity Management

Oct 1, 2025

When talking about optimizing BigQuery slots, one of the decision-making tools I applied was the Newsvendor Model. It may sound like just another statistical method, but in prac...

Stddev Understanding Where To Commit

Sep 19, 2025

📊 Standard Deviation in Capacity Management and Forecasting

Experimenting with k8 on multipass

Sep 18, 2025

Experimenting with Kubernetes on Multipass VMs

Building Enterprise-Ready Apache NiFi

Sep 16, 2025

🚀 Building Enterprise-Ready Apache NiFi

The BigQuery Capacity Conundrum: A Story of Balance

Sep 16, 2025

Managing BigQuery slots effectively is about more than just scaling up capacity. It requires analyzing workloads, predicting demand, and applying rule-based governance to strike...