A Fivetran customer is considering replacing their Salesforce-to-Snowflake replication pipeline due to escalating costs.

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        "excerpt": "Hi u/Connect-Football8349,\n\n Thank you for taking the time to give Openflow another shot and provide feedback here. I'm one of the PMs on Openflow and we take feedback from our customers seriously.\n\n I really wish they’d just throw the entire UI in the trash. Why am I forced to look at a \"canvas\" for the runtime? Can’t they make the parameters and configuration settings actually visible and access",
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        "excerpt": "but the runtime I’ve created doesn’t even show up\n\n Different commands to list v2 runtimes, it’s in the docs.",
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