Hetzner doesn't even have proper IAM or virtual networking, it's like saying a guy with a bicycle is a replacement for the postal system.

There is no single large market in Europe, everything is fractured by language and different cultures in each country. Monetizing it is also difficult.

All licences restricting commercial use will need to be cleared, that's the point.

Yes… but from my point of view, if there is an alternative solution without those restrictions, I’ll go with that. I’d only consider a solution with such restrictions if its other advantages were so compelling as to overcome that (and even then, if one has to ask legal, it isn’t guaranteed they’ll say “yes”)

Yes, that is the point.

Digital services are a prime target for reciprocal tariffs from the EU.

For the goal of the interview - showing your knowledge and skills - you are failing miserably. People know what LLMs can do, the interview is about you.

One difficult to replicate thing is visibility rules and rollbacks, with postgres you can abort and your changes are hidden, no such luxuries worth this architecture unless you make it very complex with partial states, drafts or something similar.

It seems like you get a promo for changing names of things. The more convoluted, the higher you get.

I wonder if it's partly about the well-known phenomenon where new product people come in or are promoted and feel they have to assert their dominance by making a change just for the sake of making a change.

It's probably easier to get ahead by saying you launched a "new product", than "Office release 974".

you should probably disclose what you work on as this makes you not exactly impartial, it would be quite bad for you to criticize value of what you sell:

> I'm the CEO of Hipposys Ltd, a boutique Data & AI Engineering shop (www.hipposys.com). We specialize in building RAG systems, Data Warehouses, and anything else related to the intersection between Data & AI. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me at edan@hipposys.com, and we can see if we are a good fit!

First of all, I'm not sure what you mean by "disclose" - you took that from my HN profile which is a click away. Do you think I should mention this in every comment I make about LLMs?

Secondly, you're confusing cause and effect. I've been in the industry for more than twenty years working on many different things, and my company has done mostly data engineering work for most of its existence, the AI engineering is a relatively-new (past year or so) shift.

I don't think highly of AI because I work in AI - I work in AI because I think highly of it!

K8s certs are not any better, it's just a slightly more practical test (but it falls well short on how most companies use k8s)

And sqlite is extremely lax by default (and even non-defaults are not great).