Why is Snowflake so expensive
Great article. On the surface, it&#x27;s about Snowflake. At a deeper level, the article is about the perverse incentives motivating SaaS businesses to do seemingly dumb, inefficient things and avoid seemingly obvious optimizations by default.<p>Many SaaS businesses are perfectly happy to let customers shoot themselves in the foot if it generates more revenue. The BigQuery example (presently, by default, `select * from table limit 10` obediently scans the entire table at <i>your</i> expense!) is spot-on.<p>As the article so well puts it, every SaaS company has a vested financial interest &quot;to leave optimization gremlins in.&quot;