Snowflake Summit 2021 is here! Amid all of the guest speakers and customer showcases, Snowflake will be rolling out some new features that are currently in private preview. Two of these are Snowpark and Java UDFs. Both will enable the use of Snowflake’s elastic and scalable compute resources for the processing of large datasets without having to pull high volumes of data back and forth over the wire into local or virtual compute clusters.
Snowflake’s announcement in November 2020 stated that Snowpark is “a new developer experience that will allow data engineers, data scientists, and developers to write code in…
