June 15, 2026 at 12:00 am
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Slow Growing Problems
June 15, 2026 at 7:49 am
I'm watching a serverless cloud data warehouse issue at the moment, where the data is growing naturally, and the costs are slowly creeping up because the time to process is creeping up.
We could choose to use a bigger warehouse size. The cost calculation isn't straightforward because the warehouse bills by the minute. A larger instance will cost more per minute, but the number of minutes consumed will drop. It isn't easy to predict what will actually happen to costs. Businesses like to know exactly what will happen when it comes to money.
We have several options we could pursue instead; however, business priorities are elsewhere because the system works at present. It is hard to get preventative work prioritised.
June 16, 2026 at 1:46 am
It is. Usually everyone wants to wait until its an emergency.
Which is never good timing.
June 17, 2026 at 8:52 am
Hear, hear as to emergencies being inconvenient times to fix stuff.
If it ain't broke, there's less motivation to fix it. But a stitch in time saves nine.
Maybe a bit of judicious extrapolation, with currency signs attached, would focus people's attention.
And chuck a few suitable phrases in there -- "proactive", "forward-looking", etc. I don't know -- people are perverse.
Good success. May we all come out smiling.
MarkD
June 18, 2026 at 5:09 pm
Hear, hear as to emergencies being inconvenient times to fix stuff. If it ain't broke, there's less motivation to fix it. But a stitch in time saves nine. Maybe a bit of judicious extrapolation, with currency signs attached, would focus people's attention. And chuck a few suitable phrases in there -- "proactive", "forward-looking", etc. I don't know -- people are perverse. Good success. May we all come out smiling. MarkD
Preach!
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