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I fully agree in spirit, but in practice, read-replica's have some edge cases that are hard to control for. Namely, the incentives aren't fully aligned between the database host an…

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Congrats on the launch! I'm one of the cofounders of Prequel (I saw our name in the feature grid - small nit: we do support self-hosting). This is definitely a problem worth solvin…

Prequel | https://prequel.co | Senior Software Engineer | Full Time | GoLang, Postgres, Typescript, React, K8s | $150k-$180k + equity | ONSITE in NYC Prequel is an API that makes i…

Hey HN -- Conor here, aka the guy from the demo. Happy to answer any questions you have!

Oh, yeah, it probably does make sense for the warehouses to make that part easier, at least for the more popular transactional db choices. You may have seen Google/BigQuery recentl…

Hey Ian, great to hear from you – thanks for the note, and hope you're doing well!

Just saw and sent you a note – would love to hear more!

Snowflake has made it really easy to share to other Snowflake instances, and the other major cloud data warehouses are working on similar warehouse specific features as well. This …

Thanks for watching and for the kind words! Re 1. – it’s definitely on the roadmap – we’re planning on getting to it in Q4/Q1, but we can move it up depending on customer need. Re …

Re: scale – we do handle billions of rows! As you can imagine, exact throughput depends on the source and destination database (as well as the width of the rows) but to give you a …

Thank you! And exactly right – Postgres, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and Databricks are the sources we support today. We also have some streaming sources (like Kafka) in beta wi…