[kstrauser]

> YRMV, but it has been incredible for us, both to support our data science initiatives, and for rapidly deploying applications. I couldn't imagine going back to anything else.

Out of curiosity, are your data scientists actually happy with this? All of ours are using Python notebooks with Spark or RDS, and I think there'd be an armed revolt if we asked them to migrate to anything else.

[F_J_H]

So far, yes. APEX in this case is used for data visualization and dashboards, mostly using Plotly.js.

And, the oracle database is the data store for clean/structured data. They use python notebooks and all the other python based goodies for their work - the DB is just where they get their data. (And, sometimes it makes sense to do data processing with the DB). We could end up using Spark at some point - we're not precluded from that.