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I am Max Ganz II, a globally available Amazon Redshift specialist. I began using Redshift the day it came out back in 2012 and have been investigating it in depth for many years, and so I can answer - really answer - all your Redshift questions and resolve any Redshift issues, or explain and justify that Redshift cannot deliver for the given use case and advise on alternatives.

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Welcome to the site. I am Max Ganz.

I began using Redshift in 2012, and as an early, heavy user, ended up having monthly one-to-one meetings with one of the Redshift team managers, and one or two features in Redshift today come from those meetings, such as the distribution style ALL.

I originally (and always will be) was a C programmer, wrote my own relational database from scratch in C, and then in about 2018 began serially investigating Redshift sub-systems full-time, to write a book.

That book became this web-site, where I publish my investigations, and ongoing cross-region benchmarking and version tracking and so on.

To my knowledge, I am the only person doing anything even remotely like this, and I've come as a result to have a pretty good idea of how Redshift works internally.

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2022-08, Starred B.V., The Netherlands, Bram van Gestel, CTO (email, LinkedIn)

In 2022 we were running a Redshift migration project for our BI solution and we experienced performance issues. With Max’s guidance and knowledge we come to the conclusion that Redshift was not a good fit for our use-case, due to it underlaying architecture.
I would describe Max as a very knowledgeable person, and the collaboration was as professional and pleasant.

2022-12, EdOps Inc., United States, Josh Marks, CTO, Co-Founder (email, LinkedIn)

We feel extremely grateful for the deep support of Max @ RedShift Observatory.
Redshift is an extremely difficult beast to tame and the behavior of our instance was often inscrutable. We feel extremely grateful to have worked with Max, Redshift whisperer, who was able to quickly diagnose problems and prioritize the steps to vastly improve performance. He has deep technical knowledge of the product, a warm comical wit, and can challenge Dos Equis' most interesting man. I highly recommend that you work with him. Feel free to contact me.

2023-03, Railsware Solutions FZ-LLC, Ukraine, Anatoliy Yevpack, Associate Director and Technical Lead (email, LinkedIn)

We are extremely grateful for the assistance that Max has provided us as a consultant. He shared numerous insights into the internals of Redshift, which quickly proved to be invaluable and unveiled the actual problem we were facing. Gaining an understanding of the underlying reasons behind the issues we encountered led us to realize that we were employing the wrong tool for the task. Consequently, we made the decision to transition away from Redshift. This not only saved us a substantial amount of money but also spared us from those issues. We should have reached out to Max much sooner!

2024-03, Prismforce Inc., India/USA, Amit Singh, Senior Technical Architect (LinkedIn)

Max has deep knowledge on internals of Redshift and has helped us on understanding the entire workflow. We were in an ambiguous situation to choose AWS Redshift, but based on Max's concrete case studies we were able to make an accurate decision. He also helped us with tooling for our analytics use case and we are happy to make the decision. Thank you Max, and we would refer you if some of my acquaintance is exploring AWS Redshift.
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