I was a tech lead on one of the testing analytics data platforms by one of the "commercial firms" mentioned in the article, and I used to plead with/yell at/caj

I was a tech lead on one of the testing analytics data platforms by one of the "commercial firms" mentioned in the article, and I used to plead with/yell at/cajole various groups of people to not ship uncompressed CSVs around by email/FTP :(