Big data
Big data is now a big thing. Everybody is trying to take the advantage of big data to explore new areas of business or unleash their potential in traditional businesses.
Google Cloud Platform offers a set of big data APIs that enable the users to carry on pretty much any task in large sets of data. With tools such as BigQuery, a data analyst can run queries on terabytes of information in seconds without setting up a massive scale infrastructure.
In general, the big data APIs from Google are what is called no-ops tools in the DevOps world: they don't require maintenance from users as they leverage it into Google. This means that if a big query requires a lot of processing power, Google is the one responsible for transparently offering ...
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