Boost BigQuery with Python: Managed Python UDFs now generally available (opens in new tab)

SQL is the industry standard for high-performance structured data analysis. However, expressing complex procedural logic, scientific computations, advanced string manipulations, or machine learning workflows in pure SQL can be highly challenging, if not impossible. That kind of work is better done with Python. Data practitioners often take on additional infrastructure management tasks — maintaining custom images and containers, and working with additional compute services — just to run simple...