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fbdab103 on Oct 31, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: I accidentally saved my company half a million dol...

There are probably other use cases, but I only think of data warehouses for supporting batch/analytical workloads where latency is not a problem because the entire job takes minutes/hours to complete. In which case cold start does not significant.

Johnny555 on Oct 31, 2023 [–]

Analysts and other data consumers don't want to wait 30 seconds for cache warming every time they refresh their dashboard.

Also, since you're paying by the second, it can be cheaper to keep a warehouse running longer to avoid having to re-warm the cache with every query.

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