To some degree, they do -- under SEC rules (Exchange Act §12(g)), private companies with >$10M in assets and 2,000+ shareholders (or 500+ non-accredited investors) have to start public-style reporting. I assume there's some clever accounting to ensure they're not at the 2,000 shareholder cap (perhaps double-trigger RSUs don't count as being a shareholder yet?)

The costs of using Databricks are anything but low, though.

True, but it can still be lower than alternatives or lower than the cost to provide.

it really is the most expensive I've ever came across. It would be a flatout no-go if it weren't for Microsoft pushing everyone onto this platform, supported by their network of really absolutely neutral Gartner friends and Deloittes/KPMG/Accenture/TCS "experts" to recommend what lines their pockets.

I can't speak to their specific policies, but employees are often prohibited from trading in derivatives on company stock (and are regardless subject to open trading windows, which sometimes do not open until after the lockup has expired)

Plus although the finances might balance out, it takes extra care to ensure taxation isn't unbalanced (or other risks).

Is there some compliance reason or otherwise that you need one physical database per tenant, and can't just colocate multiple logical databases/schemas on one PlanetScale database?

That's kind of hard to do with the PlanetScale schema migration concept (branching). Doing something like prefixed tables doesn't work and you can't create multiple databases on 1 server (or at least you couldn't and I did ask support about it).

I could make my application multi-tenant in the application code but that would require a lot of refactoring and testing. It's possible but it's a big lift to do that. If I could do that, I'd have much more flexibility. I don't think compliance will ever be an issue for me so that isn't holding me back.

The linked page specifically mentions that these ZDR APIs are not impacted.

> This does not impact API customers who are using Zero Data Retention endpoints under our ZDR amendment.

No need for the friends to be involved -- she resigned prior the the bankruptcy filing so she can participate in the bidding process personally

I don't believe this is true, but you do have to give one of the iMessage groups a name to make it independent from another group. If you imagine that primary key for a group is its name, and the default name for a group is its participants, this does kind of make sense.

I have a number of iMessage groups with the same participants, and different names and logos.

It can be fiber speeds! I had symmetric gigabit with MonkeyBrains for 3 years. It just depend on the size of their install; I was in a relatively large apartment complex so they invested more in bigger(?) antennas.

That doesn't sound exactly correct per the definitions I'm familiar with -- a multi-engine plane with a failure will not safely climb at V1, that's what V2 defines (the speed at which an engine-out aircraft can climb at 200ft/s, with at least 35ft of altitude at the end of the runway). Vr should be when the pilot begins rotation unless an engine is out; I don't believe there's any guidance to wait until V2.

Many cross-platform applications which store metadata in xattrs on Unix-based systems will use ADS for the same purpose.

E.g. Dropbox, which syncs some extended attributes (and uses some for internal metadata), seems to store them in the ADS on Windows.