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.
- ML-Powered Functions. Although you can already use popular machine learning libraries in Snowpark, Snowflake takes machine learning to another level by providing functionality that allows you to train models and perform inference directly from SQL.
It was also exciting to get together with my fellow Data SuperHeroes again this year. We were featured at the Builders’ Keynote.
And last but certainly not least, my employer In516ht received the EMEA Growth Partner of the Year Award! Our CEO was on stage to receive it.
After the Snowflake Summit, a few of the Data SuperHeroes got together for a virtual Germany User Group where we shared our highlights from Las Vegas.