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Re:Giving meaning to 100B analytics events a day with Kafka,... by ryanworl on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @03:17PM (#16870170)
Isn’t “buy 2000 BQ slots for 40k a month” essentially just buying a cluster?
Re:Giving meaning to 100B analytics events a day with Kafka,... by vgt on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @03:24PM (#16870230)
Yes, essentially.. a software-defined cluster (not physical). It's a parallel pricing model. To be clear, my previous post's logic is not calling for an exception for this model - you trade efficiency for predictability.