[agibsonccc]

Congrats on your round! FWIW, (me being in a space adjacent to yours) I see these kinds of comments all the time about the "my 1 off pipeline seems good enough".

Most people don't need "industrial strength" till you hit a certain scale. They tend to optimize for ease of use/simplicity. It's one thing if you don't have to change their workflow, it's another if you have to not only have people change their workflow but also teach something new.

Convenience matters more. There's a pain threshold of "new tool" vs "this costs me x amount of time".

How are you guys overcoming this? Even though we're also in the infra space, I've never seen you guys out in the wild. Where would I bump in to you and what is the scale I would want to add the complexity of k8s + pachyderm + whatever other deps you guys have over just using an S3 bucket?

Another question: Why hasn't AWS just packaged this up and offered it as an extension of their k8s service? How are you guys going to overcome that?

Usually I see "hybrid cloud" or "on prem" as the response. If it is on prem, are you guys relying on the presence of k8s at customers? Do you guys use something like gravitational?

[marmaduke]

> my 1 off pipeline seems good enough

Not what I was describing. We’ve been using the setup for a while with multiple projects and for the data science end of a clinical trial.

I like building new setups incrementally out of tools I already know, so the question is obviously why is this new tool a radical improvement