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by genericpseudo 3308 days ago
Running a data warehouse is a full-time commitment. Tons of real businesses have no software engineers.

This is a great-looking product.

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With modern data warehouses like BigQuery & Snowflake, this is no longer true. We at Fivetran get people setup with a BI tool, warehouse and data pipelines in a day. From there, its all SQL with little to no management of the underlying system.

Note: I'm specifically excluding Redshift which requires active management