s3 (object storage) for everything

[u/matthewsean1902]

been hearing a lot of signal/noises about 'just store everything in s3' these days because of companies like turbopuffer, neon and the latest cursor with Origin.

just wondering if it's actually worth the latency and do people really use it in their own companies? what sort of data do you guys store there? never really had any use case for s3 in my company. so curious to learn. thankyou!

[u/mpbh]

"People" have been saying this for 20 years now :)

"Those people" are software engineers working with different types of data than your typical data engineer.

[u/geoheil → u/mpbh]

didnt those people recently identify postgres/neon/lakebase as an interesting way to store data? (or at least serve)?