rguillebert

So they saved $0.000006 per record, it's really about the little things...

It depends on what you mean by free market, it's often used interchangeably with with laissez-faire capitalism but an important concept in a free market is that the barrier to entry for new competitors should be as low as realistically possible, so regulation that prevents vendor lock-in can be pro free market.

You're only saying this because you don't like the outcome of economic research. So called "soft" sciences are the best way to get close to the truth in those fields even if it's harder to get undeniable answers.

In our use case (rebuilding tables from Postgres CDC logs), Delta Lake was significantly faster than Hudi.

This is monthly rent, not yearly...

Aside from whether this is "cheating", this shows how having connections can give you an advantage in your career.

That's literally what people do when they buy a house, except in that case, that debt is probably backed by Elon's Tesla stock.

What's the benefit over just using the main database?

If a customer has 1000 employees all using your app, it is.

A lot of these things can scale vertically rather than horizontally. If you allow denser housing by building higher, schools and hospitals can also build higher.

Namedtuples also behave like tuples, which is great when you want to incrementally turn tuples into classes but if you want an easy way of creating classes, it's probably not a good idea to have them behave like tuples. Plus dataclasses have more features.

What are the good alternatives for an XPS like laptop that runs Linux?

The book "Why nations fail" makes the claim that centralized institutions (among other things) are necessary for building a prosperous country. It's a very interesting read.