[robertlagrant]

> Your product asks will consistently want to combine these data sources (they don't know how your distributed databases look, and oftentimes they really do not care).

I'm not sure how to parse this. What should "asks" be?

[delecti]

The phrase "Your product asks will consistently " can be de-abbreviated to "product owners/product managers you work with will consistently request".

[cfors]

The feature requests (asks) that product wants to build - sorry for the confusion there.