Samartha ChandrashekarAn overview of Bottlerocket — a container-optimized Linux distributionA few years back, I helped create the new Linux distribution, Bottlerocket. I wrote the product proposal and made a case for funding it…7 min read·Mar 10, 2024----
Samartha ChandrashekarOverview of the internals of Apache SparkApache Spark is an open-source, distributed computing framework for processing large amounts of data. This post explores the internals of…4 min read·Mar 7, 2024----
Samartha ChandrashekarCapacity management and scaling in the cloud using auto-scalingThis blog post details ways to use auto-scaling to simplify compute capacity management while balancing between performance and costs.5 min read·Mar 7, 2024----
Samartha ChandrashekarCost-optimal training of domain-specific large language modelsSnowflake makes the common AI use cases easy via Snowflake Cortex and the advanced use cases possible via Snowpark ML in virtual…12 min read·Dec 11, 2023----
Samartha ChandrashekarinSnowflake Builders Blog: Data Engineers, App Developers, AI/ML, & Data ScienceOptimizing Snowflake Cloud Services costsThis blog post provides an overview of Snowflake Cloud Services, Cloud Services costs, and ways to optimize them.4 min read·Dec 6, 2023----
Samartha ChandrashekarinSnowflake Builders Blog: Data Engineers, App Developers, AI/ML, & Data ScienceBest practices to optimize data ingestion spend in SnowflakeThis blog post reviews mechanisms to ingest data into Snowflake and then covers best practices to optimize costs incurred for data…9 min read·Oct 30, 2023----
Samartha ChandrashekarinSnowflake Builders Blog: Data Engineers, App Developers, AI/ML, & Data ScienceReplication/failover in Snowflake and best practices to optimize associated spendThis blog post covers an overview of Snowflake functionality to ensure business continuity in the face of regional or cloud provider wide…7 min read·Oct 24, 2023----
Samartha ChandrashekarinSnowflake Builders Blog: Data Engineers, App Developers, AI/ML, & Data ScienceBest practices to optimize Snowflake storage costSnowflake is constantly improving the efficiency of storage mechanisms used behind the scenes.6 min read·Oct 10, 2023--2--2
Samartha ChandrashekarinSnowflake Builders Blog: Data Engineers, App Developers, AI/ML, & Data ScienceDeep dive into the internals of Snowflake Virtual WarehousesSnowflake’s Data Cloud provided as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), enables data storage, processing, analytic solutions, Machine Learning…28 min read·Sep 21, 2023--1--1
Samartha ChandrashekarinSnowflake Builders Blog: Data Engineers, App Developers, AI/ML, & Data ScienceFinOps for SnowflakeFinOps is a framework to manage cloud costs that spans several business functions — Engineering, Finance, Product, etc. via deliberate and…8 min read·Sep 15, 2023----
