What we learned at Google Cloud Next 2026 about BigQuery efficiency, reservations vs on-demand, and the bandwidth gap keeping teams from tuning spend.

BigQuery editions aren't just pricing tiers: Standard vs Enterprise controls which features your reservation can use. Here's what each BigQuery edition includes and how to pick the right one.

What Nordstrom did after migrating to BigQuery to reduce spend by 47%, cut slot waste from 57.3% to 18.6%, and reclaim 400 engineering hours per month.

On-demand or reservations? Learn when each BigQuery pricing model wins, and why the answer varies by project, workload, and even individual job.

How to reduce BigQuery capacity pricing costs by routing specific queries to on-demand without giving up the savings from your committed slots.

A simple shift from full reloads to incremental processing in BigQuery can cut scanned bytes and costs by over 90% for growing datasets. Here's how.

How a retail AI SaaS company cut BigQuery spend by 15-20% and reclaimed a full FTE worth of engineering time by moving from manual SQL cost analysis to automation with Rabbit.

BigQuery INFORMATION_SCHEMA shows slot hours per job but not cost. Learn how to calculate what a job really costs on capacity-based pricing — and why it is almost always more than the list price.

Rabbit is heading to Google Cloud Next '26 in Las Vegas, April 22-24. Visit us at booth #4421, catch our Lightning Talk on automating BigQuery optimization, and join our live webinar on the topic.

BigQuery reservation scaling modes control whether a reservation borrows idle slots, autoscales, or both, with a hard cap on total consumption. Here's how to choose the right one.

On April 1, 2026, Google changes how BigQuery distributes idle slots across reservations by default. Here is what the fairness switch means for your setup.

Learn how to reduce GCE overprovisioning by 40%+ through data-driven machine type rightsizing, family switching, and autoscaler optimization strategies.