Qubole
company on 4 shows · 5 statements across 3 episodes · said 17 times in 6 episodes since 2014
the MAD Podcast 12 
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A single feature flip made Snowflake 10x cheaper than competitor Qubole
“We turn it on, and we went from being like, five X more expensive to 10 X less expensive by just flipping that switch.”
Ashish Thusoo led Facebook's data infrastructure team before founding Qubole
“Before I started QBOL, I was at Facebook, and I built out, I ran the team that built out the infrastructure there.”
Thusoo: Qubole clusters regularly auto-scale 36x for average customers
“QBOL, for example, in QBOL, you know, we regularly have, ah, you know, with our autoscaling algorithms, we are, we regularly scale up clusters to 36 times the size of the minimum clusters on an average customer”
Qubole processes around 500 petabytes of data monthly
“You know, for example, we process around 500 petabytes of data every month across workloads ranging from you know, mundane ETL workloads to more complex machine learning workloads to ad hoc analysis and so on and so forth.”