Or listen to Nick Caldwell, Reddit VP Engineering, moving away from AWS to BigQuery:
- "2017, which effectively brought us to the present system, we began forking all of our event data into BigQuery, after considering a lot of different alternatives" https://youtu.be/tKISLQ87GO8?t=426
a) Do you look at the benchmarks that each company produces, and choose the one that publishes the numbers that make them look the best?
b) Do you ask "I have n data analysts with m different questions and I want to give them the most productive platform I can".
Well, this is what Twitter chose:
- How Twitter Migrated its On-Prem Analytics to Google Cloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3JAwCYGHU8
Or listen to Nick Caldwell, Reddit VP Engineering, moving away from AWS to BigQuery:
- "2017, which effectively brought us to the present system, we began forking all of our event data into BigQuery, after considering a lot of different alternatives" https://youtu.be/tKISLQ87GO8?t=426
I prefer method b) :)
Disclosure: I'm https://twitter.com/felipehoffa and I work for GCP