Category: Development

Taming the Snowflake: Strategies to Slash Your Cloud Data Warehouse Costs

Taming the Snowflake: Strategies to Slash Your Cloud Data Warehouse Costs

My experience with Snowflake spans several different organizational contexts, it’s power in scaling to meet business data requirements is closely followed by how the costs can similarly scale. This post explores practical strategies to help you reduce your Snowflake costs without sacrificing performance. Starting with general guidance, then dipping into technical strategies including dbt specific packages and approaches.

Data loading, with the help of AI

Data loading, with the help of AI

In today’s fast-paced development world, efficiency is paramount. AI can significantly accelerate the coding process, including the creation of scripts to interact with various data formats. This blog post will explore how to use AI assistance to generate Python code for loading a custom XML file.

Introducing: Dirty Master Data Management Application

Introducing: Dirty Master Data Management Application

This is a side project of mine, something to keep me out of mischief at home. My aim for this project is to be an example/template/starting point for using flask for a quick (and dirty) approach to a Master Data Management (MDM) application AKA a Data Warehouse Management Application (DWMA).