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Re:We built a Modern Data Stack from scratch and reduced our... by jchandra on Sunday March 09, 2025 @02:55PM (#43312396)
We did have a discussion on Self vs Managed and TCOs associated with it. 1> We have multi regional setup so it came up with Data Sovereignty requirements. 2> Vendor Lock ins - Few of the services were not available in that geographic region 3> With managed services, you often pay for capacity you might not always use. our workloads were often consistent and predictable, so self managed solutions helped in fine tuning our resources. 4> One og the goal was to keep our storage and compute loosely coupled while staying Iceberg-compatible for flexibility. Whether it’s Trino today or Snowflake/Databricks tomorrow, we aren’t locked in.

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