How we stopped breaking production pipelines with Snowflake zero-copy cloning
Ninety-eight percent of production data pipeline incidents happen because developers tested their code against a "subset" of data that didn’t actual…
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I Checked the New PERIOD Data Type in Snowflake
Snowflake recently made the PERIOD generally available. I saw it in the release notes and wondered what it would change in a model that already has…
My Snowflake Agent Was Wrong. So Was My Evaluation.
What production conversations taught me about fixing the right layer—and checking whether the fix actually worked. When an agent gets a disappointin…
The Snowflake Iceberg Pivot: Why Your Data Warehouse Should Be a Storage Engine
Ninety percent of the "performance" you pay for in Snowflake is actually just a tax on your inability to move your data. If you’re like most enginee…
Moving Data Is Easier Than Moving Knowledge
This is Part 1 of a two-part technical series. Rupak's article on building AI-ready data products describes the larger destination: a machine-readab…
We Throw Away 1.3 Billion Tons of Food While Millions Starve. I Built FoodBridge with Snowflake to Stop It
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition Three years ago, I volunteered at a commercial bakery in the city. At 9:30 PM every S…
We Taught a Snowflake Warehouse to Judge World Cup Conviction and Write the Verdict Back to Solana
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition Target categories: Best use of Snowflake + Best use of Solana. The single most common mi…
For the love of the game: a World Cup companion with on-chain betting and Snowflake-ready analytics
Submission for the [DEV Weekend Challenge — Passion Edition]. ( https://dev.to/challenges/weekend-2026-07-09 ) The prompt asked us to build; Somethi…
From Optimization to Protection: Adding a Security and Governance Agent to Your Snowflake Multi-Agent Team (Part 3)
From Optimization to Protection: Adding a Security and Governance Agent to Your Snowflake Multi-Agent Team (Part 3) In Part 1 , we built an Admin Ag…
From STTM to Snowflake SQL: Building a Metadata-Driven Data Engineering Copilot
Most data engineering teams do not struggle because they lack smart people. They struggle because too much of the delivery process is still repetiti…
Building Production-Ready Semantic Search with Python and Snowflake Cortex
Recently I has been given a task to implement AI powered semantic search for our catalogue and as we are already using snowflake we decided to imple…
Deep Dive: Connecting AI to Snowflake with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets AI assistants like Claude talk directly to Snowflake in real time — no custom API glue needed. This guide cove…