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Not that surprising. How many millions has been piled into dbt Labs? dbt Cloud is an uncompelling product. Fivetran is convenient but absurdly expensive. Now d
by tomwphillips 1y ago
Not that surprising. How many millions has been piled into dbt Labs?
dbt Cloud is an uncompelling product. Fivetran is convenient but absurdly expensive. Now dbt core development is just another marketing cost for Fivetran.
I'd really love to see everyone move on from the "modern data stack". dbt is a sticking plaster to a problem caused by orgs aggressively adopting SaaS products and choosing distributed software architectures without any thought about how to deal with the problem that your data models don't fit together and data is stored in 30 different places.
- czhu12 1y agoWould like to echo the absurdly expensive bit. They charged us over $140k / year to basically stream ~1TB of production data (50m rows) from our Postgres into a redshift database. They were part of the reason I started https://canine.sh https://canine.sh as a way to self host more things. Had we had the confidence to host Airbyte or kafka + debezium as an option, we wouldn't have to deal with the atrocious pricing. Everytime I bring up self hosting, the response is always a rote response of: "Its way too hard", "What if it goes down?", "Just delegate it to the professionals". To me this just seems incredibly defeatist, and its the same set of rebukes regardless if the cloud version costs $100 or $100,000. end of rant.