DatabasesDevOps/CloudData/ML/AIAround since 2013

Amazon Redshift

Also written as Redshift

AWS's data warehouse — a large analytical database for running reports and aggregations across huge tables, rather than serving an application.

Think of it like

Like a research library built for reading thousands of books at once, not for lending one out quickly.

Junior or senior?

Junior sounds like

Names it as a warehouse.

Senior sounds like

Can talk about distribution keys, sort keys or vacuuming — the things that separate a fast Redshift cluster from a slow one.

Ask them

“What did you do when a Redshift query that used to be fine got slow?”