We run heavy query workloads for our customers, so compute spend sits at the center of our business model. Today our engineers benchmark and tune cost per query by hand, which eats time we cannot spare. A good solution must show cost per workload clearly, fit a small team, use usage-based pricing, and be quick to adopt.
DevTools · Data Platforms · 11–50 · Europe #b018_24
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We are a young company behind a popular open-source dataframe library, building a managed query engine for running it at scale.
- Industry
- DevTools & Software · Data Platforms
- Size
- 11–50 employees
- Region
- Europe
- Tools budget
- under $1K per month
- Needs
- Internal developer platform. We are building a managed cloud from scratch and need solid platform foundations without a large infrastructure team.Today: dedicated platform engineer role to run the managed distributed query service on container clusters · Urgency: nowCloud cost optimization. Running heavy query workloads for customers means compute cost control is central to our business model.Today: engineers benchmark and tune compute costs per query rather than using a cost-management tool · Urgency: this yearSOC 2 / ISO 27001 automation. Launching a hosted service means we will need security attestations for business customers soon.Today: buyers of the new hosted service likely ask for attestation, handled case by case · Urgency: later
- Who decides
- cto · team trial
- Expects from suppliers
- Fits a small engineering team; Usage-based pricing; Fast to adopt
- Not a fit
- Enterprise-only vendors
- Stack
- cloud: AWS-class hyperscaler, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipeline in place
- Buying triggers
- new market or product launch, cost pressure
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