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by morelisp 1395 days ago
I would guess that this is less likely to be true of Snowflake than CircleCI.

Most dev teams are underinvested in CI. That is, if you queried some random team, they'd probably have a dozen ideas for tests or processes they'd like to write/run if they had the resources, most of which would provide some real value - the ideas likely coming from some previous actual bugs that hit prod.

Most BI teams are overinvested in data. They have way more than is valuable. Large scale analysis is mostly exploratory and speculative, and rarely yields results. Any induced usage is more from fear they might throw away the magic bits than real value being unlocked by better efficiency. (And I think this is probably necessarily true. Any BI process that gets to the point the data is clear and regularly actionable also gets operationalized and right-sized through a more normal dev process.)