He means that in his opinion text files are fine for low value analytics until they don’t fit on an SSD you can afford. In the “roll your own, close to the me

He means that in his opinion text files are fine for low value analytics until they don’t fit on an SSD you can afford. In the “roll your own, close to the metal” world this is a pretty sane opinion when the alternative is like, spark or hadoop or something that suck up ops time.