[ryan_green]

saltcured, find these comments super insightful!

> Yeah, there's a lot of hidden magic/assumptions in having a "writable snapshot of a specific version" of production data.

That's absolutely a huge assumption. This technology has been a game changer for us: https://lakefs.io/

> It becomes a headache when there is too much contention to use these sandboxes, or too much manual effort to reset them to a desired testing state.

This exactly the situation we were encountering.