[andrewstuart]

The Cloud is where Moore’s Law goes to die.

Ditch the cloud. Go buy a bunch of fast computers. You’d be surprised at how fast modern computers are.

Re-learn the ancient art of running your own systems…. careful, all the naysayers will tell you that no company can run their own systems, to try would be crazy!

[larodi]

Absolutely! Best way to optimize the costs of this abomination-of-storage called BigQuery from that abomination-of-tech company is to actually NOT use it. Postgres has pretty much everything you'd get from BigQuery if not more. Put on a proper hardware with proper tuning it becomes unbelievably fast. Much faster than BigQuery jobs for sure.