By the way, the emergence of LLM coding tools could make it even easier than before to reduce that dependence, as the cost of reproducing many of the mature technologies is going to cost less than it would have before. Ironically, doing that may require using US tools (like Claude Code), at least for now, but it could be a very interesting evolution/opportunity for Europe.

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petcat an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> the emergence of LLM coding tools could make it even easier than before

I find this highly optimistic. It will take years, maybe decades for EU to replace US clouds and tech. And if they're going to do it with LLMs, then it will take billions of euros in devs and tokens (again, all going to US tech companies).

Meanwhile, USA continues to strategically re-home TSMC to Arizona whilst simultaneously make huge investments to invigorate Intel and Micron.

Over the last decade USA and China have doubled-down on massive investments to out-compete each other while the EU seems like it's struggling to understand where to even begin.

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raw_anon_1111 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, I can see Claude Code making it easier to reproduce - Redshift (or Snowflake) - or anything else you need to be reliable and performant at scale.

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vjerancrnjak an hour ago | parent [-]

Both products are nothing but reliable. Redshift can’t even go around partitioning limits, or S3 limits.

But what’s funny is that Claude Code is from US company so can’t be used in a boycott scenario

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raw_anon_1111 32 minutes ago | parent [-]

Redshift is used at the largest e-commerce site in the world and was built specifically to “shift” away from “Big Red” (Oracle).

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vjerancrnjak 19 minutes ago | parent [-]

What can I say, I expected more than what they actually offer. A Redshift job can fail because S3 tells it to slow down. How can I make this HA performance product slower given its whole moat is an S3 based input output interface.

As a compute engine its SQL capabilities are worse than the slowest pretend timeseries db like Elasticsearch.

	▲	raw_anon_1111 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Are you trying to treat an OLAP database with columnar storage like an OLTP database? If you are, you would probably have the same issue with Snowflake. As far as S3, are you trying to ingest a lot of small files or one large file? Again Redshift is optimized for bulk imports.