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Managing data yourself is hard. It is hard not because it can't scale, but for more boring reasons like harder DB upgrades and migrations, snapshotting, access
by YetAnotherNick 3y ago
Managing data yourself is hard. It is hard not because it can't scale, but for more boring reasons like harder DB upgrades and migrations, snapshotting, access control, lacking libraries/SDK, lack of documentation, harder training of new employees etc. The number one reason for extended downtime I have seen in companies is that data is in some bad state. And good data engineers who could do all the things authors expects them to do are not easy to find and expensive.
- underdeserver 3y agoYeah. This post reads like the Dropbox comment. I've worked with ad-hoc data solutions, and now I work with analysts who swear by Snowflake. It's the organization, the administration, the maintenance that Snowflake is solving for us, and it's turn-key. It's not easy or cheap to get that done with a local solution.