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SaaS: How AWS Graviton moves money from Snowflake customers' wallets to shareholders' pockets
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SaaS: How AWS Graviton moves money from Snowflake customers' wallets to shareholders' pockets

...a 76% product gross margin - up from 70% just over a year earlier. Furthermore, they announced approval for a $2bn stock buyback programme. Much of the savings from Graviton isn't resulting in lower prices for Snowflake customers and instead is going to stock buybacks

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Neil Carson May 16, 2023 • 4 min read
Being outcompeted by suppliers
Data Warehouse

Being outcompeted by suppliers

It's long-term trouble to be running a business where your competitors control the cost of your product. This didn't end well at my previous employer, and won't end well at some cloud data warehouse companies either.

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Neil Carson Oct 3, 2022 • 5 min read
Comparing to Big Dog Snowflake
Snowflake

Comparing to Big Dog Snowflake

It's impossible not to be impressed by the stunning success of Big Dog Snowflake, but it sucks to be compared to them all the time. However there are recent signs that Big Dog is starting to lose its bark, and there's some howling.

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Neil Carson Jun 15, 2022 • 5 min read
Opinionated musings on data lakes, lake houses, warehouses, SQL Engines
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Opinionated musings on data lakes, lake houses, warehouses, SQL Engines

SQL engines aren't data warehouses. SQL tech is a fashion. In-memory analytics makes no sense. Data lakehouses aren't data warehouses. Neither was Hadoop.

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Neil Carson Jan 13, 2022 • 6 min read
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