Architecture: Snowflake

A data engineer kicks off a heavy quarterly report at 9 a.m. It scans two years of order history and takes four minutes to run. At the same moment, three hundred analysts open their morning dashboards, a nightly load job is still flushing yesterday's events into the warehouse, and a data scientist is training a churn model against the same tables. On a traditional warehouse, all of these workloads fight over the same fixed pool of CPU and di… Read More