Snowflake Developers & Community Update — Aug 2023 Edition
A monthly newsletter on all things Snowflake and the community!
Welcome to the Snowflake Developers & Community Update, a monthly blog about everything going on in the Snowflake Community! Learn about Snowflake developer programs, user groups, discussion channels, advocacy opportunities, open-source projects, and more.
Let’s get started!
Editor’s Note: Vino Duraisamy
Hello! I’m Vino Duraisamy from the Snowflake Developer Relations team. I have the privilege of publishing our monthly developers and community newsletter this month, and what a month it has been! Personally, I joined Snowflake as a developer advocate last month and it has been a month of learning. I put together the notes from my bootcamp into a Snowflake data engineer roadmap for anyone who is getting started with Snowflake.
What’s new this month?
Snowflake academy presents Generative AI & LLM school with 3 different tracks — for builders, business leaders and enterprises!
- Developer’s Guide: Building Your First LLM-Powered App
- Data Executive’s Guide: The Opportunities and Challenges of Generative AI
- Building an Enterprise LLM Platform: Snowflake Infrastructure for Generative AI
Get the latest scoop from the Snowflake Summit with hands-on know-how and insights from the likes of NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, Microsoft’s Ali Dalloul, and Andrew Ng from Landing AI.
Let’s get geeky about all things LLMs and Generative AI — Join us at the GenAI school.
Snowflake Native Apps Bootcamp
Sign up for the FREE instructor-led self-paced bootcamp to learn how to build, market, monetize and distribute your native apps.
The 120 mins long bootcamp has 5 sections:
- Snowflake Native App Overview
- Building a Snowflake native app
- Operating your native app
- Monetizing your native app
- Best practices for listing your product and driving demand to your Snowflake Native App.
What are you waiting for? let’s start building!!!!
Data Cloud World Tour — Coming to a city near you!!
Join us to learn about the latest capabilities of the Data Cloud and hear directly from our customers about their most exciting use cases. Topics covered will include the future of generative AI and LLMs, working with Apache Iceberg in Snowflake, bringing more development to the data with Snowpark Container Services, and much more.
Find an event near you — Data Cloud World Tour schedule.
Snowflake Demos
We’re excited to announce the launch of Snowflake Demos! Discover hands-on technical assets (videos, blogs, quickstarts, code, and more) that show how to solve common use cases with Snowflake.
- Build a text summarization app with langchain, openAI, and Streamlit
- Build robust data engineering pipelines with Snowpark for Python in Snowflake
- Financial asset management with Snowflake
- Robust data transformations with dbt cloud and snowflake
- Build an image recognition application using Snowpark, Pytorch, Streamlit, and OpenAI
- Build a machine learning model to predict home prices using scikit-learn and snowpark
NEW Blogs
The Snowflake Community has been super active on our medium blog over the past month, especially after all the exciting announcements at Summit.
Check out some of the latest below:
- 5 practical things you can do today to optimize cost in your Snowflake deployment | by Gilberto Hernandez
- Iceberg Tables on Snowflake: Design considerations and Life of an INSERT query
- Step by step roadmap to becoming a Snowflake Data Engineer in 2023
- Exploratory data analysis (EDA) of GitHub archive using Snowpark Python dataframe APIs
- Building a Privacy-Preserving LLM-Based Chatbot
- Snowflake Dynamic Table — 5 (Error Notification)
- Getting Started with Snowpark Scala with IntelliJ: Guide for Spark Scala Developers
- Aggregation Placement — Technical Deep-dive and Road to Production
- Object Tagging with Snowflake
New & Updated Quickstarts
Quickstarts teach you the latest on how to build with Snowflake. From optimizing your data pipelines using Snowpipe to using LLMs to transform your data, Quickstarts contain the complete set of instructions and source code to get you started.
Check out some of our recent quickstarts:
- Build a Snowflake Native App to Analyze Chairlift Sensor Data
- A Dive Into Slowly Changing Dimensions with Snowpark and StreamSets
- A Postman Tutorial for the Snowflake SQL API
- ALTR Quickstart — Data Access Control
- Auto-Ingest Twitter Data into Snowflake
- Accelerating Data Teams with dbt Core & Snowflake
- Accelerating Data Science with Snowflake and Dataiku
- Accelerate Data Transformation with the Telecom Data Cloud and Informatica
- Accelerate Transformations with Coalesce and Snowflake
- AWS VPC Flow Logs Ingestion
- AWS S3 Access Logs Ingestion
- AWS Cloudtrail Ingestion
Developer YouTube Channel
The Snowflake Developers Channel on YouTube is your source for product tips, demos, and guides created by builders, for builders. Be sure to subscribe to our channel.
Check out some of our recent videos:
- Optimize Your Snowflake Investment Through Workload Management
- Load Data Into Snowflake Faster
- Building An LLM-Powered Chat Interface In Snowflake Using Snowsight And Streamlit
- Demo: App Development with Streamlit
- Demo: Unleashing the Power of LLMs with Snowflake
- Performance and Cost Optimization with Snowflake | Summit 2023
- What’s New: Apache Iceberg With Snowflake | Summit 2023
- Snowflake SQL Improvements | Summit 2023
- Snowpark Container Services with NVIDIA
- External Network Access For Snowpark
- Operationalizing Snowpark Python
- Demo: Streaming with Snowflake | Summit 2023
- Snowpark Container Services: GPU Demo for Advanced ML
- Building Pipelines with Dynamic Tables
- Snowflake Summit 2023 Builder Keynote
Data Superhero Monthly Spotlight
Name: Joyce Kay Avila
Title: Program Lead, Data Cloud at Sercante
Joyce Kay Avila has been an amazing chapter leader for the Dallas Snowflake User Group. If you’re in the area, come by to say hello to her at the next event and you’ll maybe get her to sign your own O’Reilly book, Snowflake: A Definitive Guide!
Upcoming User Group Meetings
Our community runs local meetings throughout the year. Be sure to join your local chapter. The following are coming up:
- August 23 | Twin Cities User Group Meeting: 3Ms Journey with Snowflake
- August 24 | Boise User Group Meeting: Snowflake Performance Optimization
- August 31st | Dallas User Group Meeting on Workload Optimization
- September 5th | London User Group Meeting: Data Vault & Data Loading
- September 7th | Data Vault User Group Meeting: Business Modeling to Data Vault Modeling
- September 7th | Raleigh User Group Meeting: Bringing Snowflake Summit to Raleigh
- September 7th | Perth User Group Meeting: Diving into Snowpark & Terraform vs DCM Tools
Join your local chapter today at usergroups.snowflake.com
Our Product team wants your feedback!!
Have you recently done a Snowflake 30-day trial?
Give your feedback to our product team by participating in a 30-minute research call. Fill out this form by Sep 1st, 2023 if you are interested. If selected to participate, you will receive a $25 Amazon gift card for your participation!
There are so many exciting things going on in the Snowflake Community, and we can’t wait to see you all there! Create a community account today at https://community.snowflake.com, and don’t forget to check out https://developers.snowflake.com.
Until next time…keep building!
