They didn’t say the quiet part out loud, which is almost certainly that the Fivetran and Snowflake bills for what they were doing were probably enormous and those were undoubtedly what got management’s attention about fixing this.
> 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.
Otherwise, this is the perfect app for sharding/horizontal scalability. Your notes don’t need to be queried or joined with anyone else’s notes.
For example, they mention search. But i imagine it is just searching only within your own docs. Which i presume should be fast and efficient if everything is sharded by user in Postgres.
The tech stuff is all fine and good, but if it adds no value, its just playing with technology for technology sakes