thesketh

No, you are not the only one. There are unfortunately plenty of people who don't care about massive corporations asserting ownership over the work of other people whilst jealously guarding their own IP, and even some apologists for them.

I've been using the free mailboxes Gandi gives you with a domain for years. It's been solid and both UI options (SoGo and Roundcube) are decent

I think breaches like this are the reason that there's been more of a focus on creating 'trusted research environments' lately, rather than actually transferring data out of the healthcare system.

There was a really interesting review recently by Prof. Ben Goldacre which touches on a lot of this stuff, I recommend skimming it: https://www.goldacrereview.org/

We've used it in cloud migrations of light SQL Server workflows which were previously run on shared servers.

We replaced SSMS + SQL Server with Python + SQLite run in AWS Lambda. The jobs fetch the database from S3, update with the latest deltas and write out the database and some CSV files to S3. The CSV files drive some Tableau dashboards through Athena.

The SQL usually needs a bit of a rework to make this work, but for the volumes of data we were looking at (we're talking less than a million rows, jobs run once per day) we've seen good performance at low cost. We used DuckDB for a couple of workloads which needed more complicated queries, it's stupid quick.

Kill It With Fire by Marianne Bellotti is pretty much exactly about that, and is a great read.

I believe what they're talking about is more commonly referred to as "McCarthyism".

Hasn't this been done already? Where's Bruce Willis when you need him?

This looks really interesting! I do appreciate how clunky the DB-API is, this looks like a really nice alternative.

You should consider writing a full abstract implementation so that it's easy to implement this API for new DBs, Python's abstract base classes are great. I did something similar with the DB API PEP: https://github.com/thesketh/pep249