These kinds of articles always make me a little sad. They trick me. I start to believe “rticle” follows the A, like a good language model, and in my horror I find it should have been “dvertisement.”

> Spending too much on snowflake? This one tool (of ours) can help (for some cash) reduce how much cash you are spending!

Spend to spend less. For a company struggling with spend, perhaps that’s the argument of a fixed price. Think less.

Fixed vs usage based isn’t really important beyond the bottom line. Data, Serverless, doesn’t matter. It’s just a means of charging dollars, and as long as the right amount of dollars are spent, all is well.

Shouldn’t be important at all without sufficient accompanying headcount. What good is a cost-effective tool without a hand to hold it? Funny thing, that.