Snowflake Cost Observability
We work with a lot of teams running Snowflake, and most of them have narrow visibility into their costs. Finding out where you're spending usually means writing your own queries against
Why Snowflake is expensive (they're marking up EC2s)
When Amazon Redshift went generally available in 2013, a data warehouse was a fixed set of machines. Each compute node came with a set amount of CPU and local storage bundled together. If
How we cut a customer's Snowflake costs from Zapier by 93%
A few of our customers are heavy Zapier users, some with nearly 200 Zaps pointed at Snowflake. Most use Zapier to poll Snowflake for changes that subsequently trigger a workflow downstream. These are
DuckDB Internals: Why is DuckDB Fast? (Part 2 Vectorized Execution)
DuckDB has become one of those rare pieces of software whose greatness is difficult to capture in words. Part of that is its versatility. It is approachable enough for anyone to install, point
Automated Snowflake Savings, Now in Greysight
Most teams have AUTO_SUSPEND set to 60 seconds. While that's best practise, it still leaves a gap, especially on multi-cluster warehouses where a burst in queries can leave several