Imagine working for a company that processes a few GBs of data every day but spends hours configuring/debugging large-scale data processing systems! Whoever set up the data infrastructure copied it from some blog/talk by big tech. Now, the responsibility of managing the data team's expenses has fallen on your shoulders. You're under pressure to scrutinize every system expense, no matter how small, in an effort to save some money for the organization. It can be frustrating when data vendors ch...