Blogs
Higher Performance and Lower Costs: The Snowflake Opportunity
Is Snowflake Like a Box of Chocolates? Dark chocolate and milk chocolate. Both taste fantastic. As a chocolate eater, it’s great that you can enjoy the best of both worlds. All you have to do is reach into the box…
How to Simplify Snowflake Optimization
Snowflake provides a secure and scalable database engine with a unique architecture that decouples compute and storage resources, allowing you to pay only for the resources you use. But sometimes Snowflake users struggle to optimize their Snowflake instances. Here are…
How Data Engineers can win Friends and Influence People
To succeed in life, “It’s not what you know, but who you know.” That advice seems counterintuitive to data engineers because it’s all about what you know: how to design data models, build data assets, and deliver data products. It…
5 ways Data Learning Helps Data Engineers Impact the Bottom Line
As a data engineer in today’s data-driven competitive environment, you should feel good that your hard work is essential and delivers significant business value. But is your business value recognized? And if not, how can you make sure that it…
Performance, Performance, Performance! How Data Engineers can Put you in the Right Neighborhood
Location, location, location! In real estate, the worst house in a nice neighborhood is typically more valuable than the best house in a neighborhood next to a busy freeway. The same is true when it comes to analytics and reporting…
Fear of Missing Out: A Data Engineer’s Dilemma
Fear of Missing Out, also known as “FOMO” in its more concise form, is a huge factor in one’s decisions and actions. In our personal lives, we don’t want to miss out on the latest news, hottest trends, or greatest…
3 Ways to Speed Up Looker Dashboards
As a computer science professor focused on database systems (and now CEO of a data learning platform, called Keebo), Looker’s in-database architecture has always resonated with me. It’s exactly what we teach as best practice in database classes: push your computation to where…