#140 Taming BigQuery costs with Alvin.ai (with Martin Sahlen)
Martin Sahlen, CEO of Alvin AI, joins the Measure Pod to discuss automating BigQuery cost optimisation through billing model arbitrage, with no AI in the engine.
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Martin Sahlen, CEO of Alvin AI, joins the Measure Pod to discuss automating BigQuery cost optimisation through billing model arbitrage, with no AI in the engine.
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