Glacier-Isms
Work that could be considered unproductive or otherwise performed solely to check boxes
What is shorn?
After calling PUAS home for years, we're building our own house
What is account migration?
Rumor has it that Paul's is a honey badger
What is a spirit animal?
Glacier's longest standing leader, Rich Simon was often poked at for his particular opinions on this
What is food?
This sunset is finally happening...really this time...in late 2026
What is Lotus Notes?
We can end the meeting
What is ding?
It's not a regular data lake house, it's a cool, Trino data lake house
What is Starburst?
Performing on an annual basis feels too frequent to us, but never frequent enough for business partners
What is a rerun?
For about six months, Glacier wasn't actually just Glacier and underwent a bit of an identity crisis
What is The Glacier Experience?
During the last round of optimistic planning, this sunset was road mapped for 2029
What is PCADSS?
It will be better than PCADSS and Redshift this time, I swear
What is YAW (yet another warehouse)?
Multi-tenant cluster that was intended to simplify consumption, but then again, you know what they say about intentions
What is the CRD (centralized Redshift data) cluster?
What is the PCADSS flip and stay?
Despite popular belief, the name doesn't come from the S3 storage tier
What is Glacier National Park?
Supposedly their only sunset roadblock was Spatial, but the paternity test determined that was a lie
What is DT/SS query?
We love a business buzzword; means the performance of a combined effort is greater than the sum of its parts
What is synergy?
Manual loads and version mismatching
What is PCMR (P&C metadata registry)?
One of Paul's work hobbies; just because we handle the grants doesn't mean we have business decision rights
What is a security request?
One of the few original scope items that was actually pruned
What are the monthly PCADSS audits?
Not to displace Microsoft Teams, but this service actually put Rocket Chat out to pasture
What is Slack?
Something you tell yourself to cope
What is 'it all pays the same'?
Don't ask me who's asking for it or even who's validating it
What is the manual BL test load?
Understand why consumers need it, not sure why it needs to come from Glacier
What is metadata?
You'll still hear people refer to the pipeline diagram by their name; Glacier's former resident grump
Not PCADSS, but another sprawling legacy sunset that will probably still be underway when I retire in the 2050s
What is FDW?