Sasha Liu

Platform architect

Engineering team profile. Platform architecture posts on AI-DE Insights cover warehouse cost analysis (Snowflake vs BigQuery vs Databricks), FinOps for data platforms, multi-cloud Terraform, and the partition pruning + query optimization patterns that make platforms affordable at scale. Replace with real bio when authoring identity ships.

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PlatformFeb 28, 202610 min read
Snowflake vs BigQuery in 2026: A Cost Analysis
We ran the same workload — 8 TB scanned daily, mixed ad-hoc and scheduled queries, three BI tools — on both Snowflake and BigQuery for 30 days. The winner depends on something most comparisons get wrong.