Summary
An uptime monitoring service faced a significant cost increase with BigQuery. By implementing DATE partitioning and clustering by user_id and website_id, along with a 90-day partition expiration, costs were reduced by 90%. This highlights the importance of effectively utilizing available tools and methods.
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