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Previewing the power of BigQuery Remote Functions for drive time optimization

BigQuery's Remote Functions (in preview) make it possible to apply custom cloud functions to your warehouse without moving data or managing compute. This flexibility unlocks many use cases including data enrichment. In this post we demonstrate a pattern for combining BigQuery with the Google Maps API to add drive times to datasets containing origin and destination locations. This enrichment pattern is easily adapted for address geocoding or adding Google Map's place descriptions to locations.

5 Key Tips for Beginners Learning JavaScript

If you have ever been interested in Web Development then chances are you have heard of JavaScript. JavaScript is an object-oriented programming language. It is used by developers to make the client-side (front end) of web pages dynamic and interactive. It is also used alongside HTML and CSS to make websites and web applications. The market for application development in 2022 is huge.

Announcing the Ably VS Code extension

We're excited to announce the Ably VS Code extension. This extension allows you to manage your Ably apps directly from VS Code. We'd love your feedback on this extension. About Ably Ably is an enterprise-grade pub/sub messaging platform. We make it easy to efficiently design, quickly ship, and seamlessly scale critical realtime functionality delivered directly to end-users. Every day, we deliver billions of realtime messages to millions of users for thousands of companies.

How We Improved Table Performance in AppSignal - Back-end Changes

In our last development cycle, we spent time improving our table performance in AppSignal. As customers stay around for longer, data starts piling up. A view with just 10 items in the beginning gathers hundreds of items, and keeps growing. Besides filtering data in the front-end to reduce the returned data, we wanted to ensure our data could keep growing without timeouts in our GraphQL API or slow-loading pages in our app.