Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?

Re:Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers? by i_like_waiting on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @10:33AM (#31261008)

Partially depends but company with 1 IT person that is not data focused, there is low probability that they will have that amount of data.

For anything above what we have I think it weirdly depends on country/ salaries.

In US, 100k per year is no brainer for cloud as even 1 FTE would cost much more.

In non-western Europe, 100k is deal killer as you can hire 2 senior DBAs and you still have enough money for quite a reasonable server.

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Re:Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers? by garciasn on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @10:42AM (#31261134)

With extensive experience in this vertical, (marketing agency and analytics), 200GB is a _partial_ day for one datasource, let alone table or total DB size.

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Re:Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers? by i_like_waiting on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @11:39AM (#31262021)

but does team have 1 IT/ data person?

Edit: sorry I see that you are the same person I was replying to. Then to understand it better, who is consumer of so vast amount of data?

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Re:Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers? by garciasn on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @11:42AM (#31262054)

The company has 1 IT person and uses a third-party vendor for IT support. We have several data engineers and scientists, but we are not specialists as DBA or cloud infrastructure; it's just one very small part of our work.

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Re:Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers? by i_like_waiting on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @12:08PM (#31262400)

Interesting, thats correct, its segment of the companies that I didn't take into consideration. Thanks

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