Snowflake Summit 2023
This was my second consecutive year at the Snowflake Summit in Las Vegas. While the hot topic last year was data mesh and all sessions about data mesh sold out, this year data mesh was like last year's snow.
Now the running theme is Generative AI and LLMs. The good news is that attendees were able to pre-book sessions and many sessions were also recorded so that I didn't miss any of the buzz around these topics.
What an exciting Summit it was! So many announcements! Here are some of my favorites:
Dynamic Tables. No more streams and tasks. Just write your SQL and Snowflake takes care of the rest, in some ways similar to materialized views, but with less restrictions about the types of queries you can use.
Native Applications. Write your application and distribute it via the Snowflake Marketplace. I built a simple app and wrote a blog post about it: Maintaining a Mapping Table with a Snowflake Native App.
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