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What a fantastic perspective from the former Uber BI team. I was on the Vertica team during this time period and the amount of effort was spent on incentives mind boggling. Millions a day lost on downtime, product features, or engineering bandwidth was a common theme.

A director asking for an exact spreadsheet to be the UI would have been par for the course, especially during the Uber China days. Heck, I personally loaded FX prices into Vertica from a spreadsheet emailed every month to the team. That process remained for more than a year as there just wasn't enough bandwidth to invert the control as automated ingestion.

Thanks for digging up these memories, @bastawhiz. I'd love to see more. :)