Rif Kiamil ( Google Developer Exper, DBT & LookerML )
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Rif Kiamil ( Google Developer Exper, DBT & LookerML )
@rifkiamil.bsky.social
a Google Developer Expert & proudly sporting a trophy case of accolades from Microsoft.

"You haven't truly lived until you've panicked the NT Kernel with NMI Interrupt." Rif 2012 - TAP AX6 & WAVE13
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@googledevs.bsky.social with a nod to Dr Crusher of Star Trek - Join me in exploring how her interactions with the computer acted as forerunners to the multimodal models, such as #googlegemini, The Dr was one of the pioneers of #PromptEngineering medium.com/google-cloud...
A Tribute to Dr. Beverly Crusher - The Unsung Hero of Prompt Engineering
Women’s History Month: Character Dr. Crusher, a original Prompt Engineer, uses semantic similarity to lower hallucinations in multimodal…
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Bug or Feature? How to Report Issues and Request Features in #GoogleCloud

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This workflow for submitting feature requests & bug reports in #GoogleCloud seems to have faded from general awareness, even though it's still actively used by teams like Chrome & Android.
Get Your Feature or Bug on Google’s Roadmap: Step-by-Step Submission Guide
If you want a feature or a bug fix from Google, start in Issue Tracker, file it or star an existing one, share with the community.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Ask 90% of developers what an ERP is, and they’ll give you a blank look 😐. You have to explain it like: "It's kind of like a CRM, but for accounting 💼." why would Jeremy Clarkson? www.instagram.com/reel/DOWKG5s... #ERP #SingleSourceOfTruth #DataModels #Modeling #GlobalAddressBook #DirParty
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October 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
#BigQuery: Feature request time! I’d love your feedback, and if you think it’s valuable, a quick vote ✅ on:

👉 Add JOIN GROUPS to align #dictionary #encoding across tables, ideal for dimensional modeling where join across fact & dim tables.

🗳️ issuetracker.google.com/issues/44260...
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September 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🦆 @duckdb.org Feature request time!
I’d love your feedback, and if you think it’s valuable, a quick vote ✅ 🗳️ github.com/duckdb/duckd... Persistent alignment of dictionary encoding for join keys across tables. 👉 Faster joins
👉 Less decoding
#DataEngineering #Parquet #Columnar
Feature Request: Shared / Common Dictionary Encoding for Join Keys (a.k.a. “Join Groups” ) · duckdb duckdb · Discussion #18837
TLDR This proposal suggests introducing catalog-level “join groups” in DuckDB native files, enabling multiple columns across tables to share a consistent dictionary encoding for join keys. The goal...
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September 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
How do you make the Borg more efficient?🤖 #AlphaEvolve!🐝💻 Google's Borg paper (circa 2015) showed how they herded millions of servers like one big hive mind. AlphaEvolve was given the task to solve & gave Borg hive mind back 0.7% of its compute 👍 #deepmind storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...
May 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Keep the grid at 50 Hz, is the name of the game, #SynchronousCondensers, #Inertia, #blackstart & UK's Low Frequency Demand Disconnection (LFDD) scheme are new terms, and we need to think about them as we all heavily rely on French imported power. medium.com/@rifkiamil/d...
Did Spain Experience less Inertia Problems? Keeping the power grid at 50 Hz is the name of the game
TL:DR: 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺 rely heavily on French 🇫🇷’s nuclear power ⚛️ as a backbone for grid stability 🏗️. We should prepare for potential…
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April 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
@aravindsrinivas.bsky.social 🌟, it's great to see a CEO get culture. Projects like Chromium & ProjectZero show Google's culture, including releasing tech & papers to the public, like PageRank, MapReduce, GFS, Dremel, Bigtable, TensorFlow, Borg, Omega, & Kubernetes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYjK...
Perplexity CEO on AI race: The market of providing answers to questions will become a commodity
YouTube video by CNBC Television
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April 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Unleashing graph analytics in BigQuery & Spanner Graph: Graph databases reimagined at #GoogleCloudNEXT youtube.com/playlist?lis...
April 23, 2025 at 4:15 AM
14 Sessions & Videos Covering BI, Analytics, Google Looker from Google Cloud Next 2025 in playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @googledevs.bsky.social #googlecloudnext #googlecloudnext2025
NEXT 2025 - Looker & BI Sessions ( Google Cloud ) - YouTube
Explore the latest advancements in Business Intelligence with Looker, unveiled at Google Cloud Next 2025.
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April 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🐼 🐻‍❄️ Allegory of Pandas & Polars - Long ago, in the age of data’s infancy, there was the 🐼 , a peaceful yet slow creature, tending to its small forests of structured information.... medium.com/p/a7c1be6f87fe #Polars #Pandas #Friesland #Rust #Python #DataFrame
April 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I was asked,"What is MS V-Order?" "V-Order sorting has a 15% impact on average write times but provides up to 50% more compression." Data is likely delayed to accumulate more before being sorted in different ways, before dictionary & run-length encoding. The sort has a significant effect on & RLE.
February 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Stand with Ukrainians as Trump prepares to sell them out
(Location: Russian embassy, London, Feb ‘23)
February 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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@ssp.sh Here is the 1st online demo Project Gemini, which became PowerPivot with VertiPaq youtu.be/KrpBLFRQFnk?..., I saw at the time as Microsoft Office Advisory Council or M$ TAP programs. Even V-Order in Fabric is Microsoft's special way of enhancing performance from Delta Lake.
Excel - Excel Gemini: The Game-Changing Tool for Data Analysis & Business Intelligence - Episode 975
YouTube video by MrExcel.com
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January 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
@googledevs.bsky.social with a nod to Dr Crusher of Star Trek - Join me in exploring how her interactions with the computer acted as forerunners to the multimodal models, such as #googlegemini, The Dr was one of the pioneers of #PromptEngineering medium.com/google-cloud...
A Tribute to Dr. Beverly Crusher - The Unsung Hero of Prompt Engineering
Women’s History Month: Character Dr. Crusher, a original Prompt Engineer, uses semantic similarity to lower hallucinations in multimodal…
medium.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM