[magnawave]

One of the hard parts of quantifying that, is you have people who wear many hats. So sure you have Cassandra gurus, and probably a decent number of them. But this is in the league where really hardcore automation kicks in to keep staffing sane, and operations possible. But outside that, how do you count datacenter folks, client folks, networking folks, etc who only spend a little fraction of time on the database parts.

But I think I can say with sufficient knowledge, all things considered still, “way fewer than you might think”.