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Looks like we are approaching the "distributed" phase of the distributed-centralized computing cycle :)

Not saying this is bad, but it's just interesting to see after being in the industry for 8 years.

Was it already happening when platforms started supporting stuff like Iceberg? But is kinda nice to see things like Snowflake have definitely their place on the ecosystem but too often at margins especially with huge workloads Snowflake creates more issues than solves them

Yes, not saying this is bad at all, just kind of funny. When you think about it it makes sense though. Why wouldn't want someone have a possibility to distribute an efficient engine.

Were you there when we had to work with our data in Teradata and SAS and hundreds of multi hundred MB Excel spreadsheets containing analytical data? 30+ minute queries were the norm. Snowflake was a breath of fresh air.

I work with Teradata every day and can query years of event data in seconds.

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