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by royjacobs 1428 days ago
The example shown has 14GB of data, which is absolutely tiny, yet it can still rack up $40k in costs per day if used incorrectly (i.e. less than optimal, but not egregiously wrong)? Why would you use this?
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Scanned 6.67GB and processed for 2.41s, cost $40340.16 / 86400 = $0.4669. More than the hourly cost of AWS on-demand a1.x4large with 16 vCPU and 32GB of RAM.

Can’t think of a worse advertisement for their product.

Seriously, when i read this, i was like, there is no way i will ever use this example product they mentioned in TinyBird.

After reading it, i was curious what the writer’s relationship was with TinyBird. Was he/she a recent user?

Then i put my palm over my face..

Plus, on what planet would you be refreshing that query every second of the day?
Would that be the same planet where you can refresh a query every second that takes 2.4s to complete? How does that work?
The one where some dev gets the query in a loop unintentionally and you discover your bankrupt the next day.
This happens more often than you might think…