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Alan Petrov
Warehouses, lakehouses and retrieval
Covers where the data sits, what it costs to ask it a question, and how retrieval quality holds up once the corpus stops being tidy.
What this desk covers
- Warehouse and lakehouse platforms
- Vector stores and retrieval
- Data contracts
- Query cost
What this desk reads
- Engine benchmark methodology and its fine print
- Storage and egress pricing
- Open table format specifications
- Public post-mortems on retrieval quality
How this desk decides
Converts every performance claim into cost per query at the reader's scale, then asks what the egress bill looks like on the way out.
What this byline is
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