Better together: BigQuery and Spanner expand operational insights with external datasets

It's a great feeling to see the results of your work alive :) Bridiging BigQuery and Spanner was a super interesting project. Can't wait to see what people will build with it! Take a look at the Blog post, the documentation and feel free to reach out to me with any questions.

^*The picture at the beginning of the post comes from Google Blog.

What’s new with BigQuery federated queries

The article Bring analytics to your data: What’s new with BigQuery federated queries that I'm co-author of was published on Google Blog so I'm happy to share it. From the article you will learn about new interesting features in BQ federation area like SQL Pushdown or Private IP Access. I had an opportunity (and not only me) to have my hands in some of these features so I'm happy to see them officially announced. Especially excited I'm about SQL Pushdowns. This was a challenging but also very interesting task which allow me to learn a lot about internals of a database engine.

^*The picture at the beginning of the post comes from Google Blog.

My presentation on Spotlight on Google Cloud Poland

I prepared a presentation about federating BigQuery with external data sources. If you want to see this presentation but also panel discussions, lightning talks, and career-focused live sessions register at the virtual conference Spotlight on Google Cloud Poland which will take place on October 27.

Ethereum network and manipulations

In cooperation with Nethermind, I published another research on EIP-1559.  If you don't remember or don't know it, EIP-1559 is an improvement that replaces the auction-based fee market in Ethereum network with a basefee and a tip. The difference between the basefee and the tip is that the first one is paid by a user and burned by the protocol, and the tip is paid directly to the miner. This time I focus on the possibility of the basefee manipulation. As everywhere where the money is involved, somebody can try to cheat the system. You can find the article here.

My first research on blockchain!

In cooperation with Nethermind, I published my first research on EIP-1559. It is an extremely hot topic in Ethereum community nowadays. I analyze how legacy and EIP-1559 users will be treated by the network in post EIP-1559 world. The research, in the form of a Jupyter notebook, can be found here. Comments are welcome.