Cloud Computing

Originally published on Sync Computing Serverless functions have had their 15 minutes of fame (and runtime). As is the case with many concepts in technology, the term Serverless is abusively vague. As such, discussing the idea of “serverless” usually invokes one of two feelings in developers. Either, it’s thought of as the catalyst for this potential incredible future, finally freeing developers from having to worry about resources or scaling concerns, or it’s thought of as the harbinger of yet another “we don’t need DevOps anymore” trend. ...

Originally published on Efficiently (Substack) The majority of my career has been focused on making data systems more efficient — whether that means performance, scalability, or cost. This series aims to democratize knowledge about how to Efficiently operationalize data. TLDR 4 changes you can make right now to run Snowflake more Efficiently: File a Snowflake support ticket and request access to the GET_QUERY_STATS function ALTER WAREHOUSE <warehouseName> SET AUTO_SUSPEND = 60; For multi-cluster warehouses: ALTER WAREHOUSE <warehouseName> SET MIN_CLUSTER_COUNT = 1; ALTER WAREHOUSE <warehouseName> SET SCALING_POLICY = ECONOMY; ALTER WAREHOUSE <warehouseName> SET STATEMENT_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS=36000 Snowflake + Driving Snowflake optimization resembles efficient driving. There are four parallel constraints: ...