OK. But... some of us do need to use Cassandra? Some of us do need to use Kafka? Like, more than 5 companies definitely do work that requires that level of scale...

Of course bad engineers make bad engineering decisions, and most engineers are bad, but that isn't really interesting to point out imo.

> How much data do you have exactly?

Petabytes or exabytes at every company I've worked at, none of which are names mentioned in this article.

> But have you done the math?

Yeah.

I mean, I've read this before, so I'm gonna stop here. I get it. Engineers are bad at their jobs so they default to picking the technologies they've heard of instead of the technologies that make sense. But like... working with massive amounts of data is not that rare anymore. It wasn't in 2017, it definitely isn't in 2022.