Hands-on with BigQuery JavaScript User-Defined Functions

Performing ETL on big data can be slow, expensive and painful - but it doesn't have to be! In this session, we'll take an in-depth look at several real-world examples of computations that don't fit well with the SQL language model and how to solve them with user-defined functions in [Google BigQuery](https://developers.google.com/bigquery/). BigQuery is a fully-managed SQL analytical engine, also used internally in Google, [capable of analyzing terabytes of data per second](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSLU8Gxt-rc). BigQuery executes user-defined functions on the same server shards that handle data processing and analytics, allowing extremely efficient execution in terms of both latency and price. Authors: Felipe Hoffa Google Developer Advocate, focused on cloud and big data. Blog: https://plus.google.com/+FelipeHoffa Thomas Park Google software engineer working to put the power of BigQuery and Dremel in the hands of developers worldwide. Blog: http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/