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They weren't that quiet about it: > Moving several large, crucial Postgres datasets (some of them tens of TB large) to data lake gave us a net savings of over
by mritchie712 2y ago
They weren't that quiet about it:
> Moving several large, crucial Postgres datasets (some of them tens of TB large) to data lake gave us a net savings of over a million dollars for 2022 and proportionally higher savings in 2023 and 2024.
- patrickmay 2y agoI'd like to see more details. 10s of TB isn't that large -- why so expensive?
- riku_iki 2y agoMaybe cloud hosted
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- aabhay 2y agoThey’re likely paying for egress from the databases as well.
- tomrod 2y agoDBA salaries, maybe?
- shrikant 2y agoFivetran charges by "monthly active rows", which quickly adds up when you have hundreds of millions to billions of rows that are constantly changing. https://fivetran.com/docs/usage-based-pricing https://fivetran.com/docs/usage-based-pricing
- mritchie712 2y agoyep, and Notion's data model is really bad for this pricing. Almost every line you type is a "block" which is a new row in their database.