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> A decade ago, you had people building in-house Hadoop clusters for tiny amounts of data instead of doing their jobs analyzing that data

So said Gary Bernhardt of WAT fame in 2015 https://x.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546

> Consulting service: you bring your big data problems to me, I say "your data set fits in RAM", you pay me $10,000 for saving you $500,000.

Which, in turn, have inspired https://yourdatafitsinram.net/

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I remember that, too. There were also just a lot of places where it’s like … your data is already in a SQL database, why not get better at reporting queries until you’re running so many of them that you don’t have an easy path to handle them? It was especially tragicomic in places where they were basically hoping not to need to hire analysts with technical skills, which is possibly the most MBA way ever to very expensively “save” money.

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