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…Mar 10Mar 10
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…Mar 7Mar 7
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.Mar 7Mar 7
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…Dec 11, 2023Dec 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.Dec 6, 2023Dec 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…Oct 30, 2023Oct 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…Oct 24, 2023Oct 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.Oct 10, 20232Oct 10, 20232
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…Sep 21, 20231Sep 21, 20231
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…Sep 15, 2023Sep 15, 2023