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The Modern Data Stack is Overcomplicated

Published on December 13, 2025

Snowflake. dbt. Airflow. Fivetran. Looker. The list goes on.

We have built a "Modern Data Stack" that costs thousands of dollars a month just to turn on. For enterprise? Sure. For a startup / growth stage company? It is overkill.

The "Just Enough" Stack

You can get 90% of the value with valid SQL, a cron job, and a replica database. Stop engineering for "Big Data" problems you do not have yet.


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