Snowflake Developers & Community Update — February 2023
In this monthly update, we share handpicked resources and news about Snowflake developer and community programs, including user groups, discussion channels, advocacy opportunities, and open source projects.
February Editor’s note: Elsa Mayer
The team rotates ownership of publishing our monthly updates, and I have the pleasure of compiling updates for February, so here are some of the community news & announcements I’m most excited about:
Can you believe it’s already February? Wishing you all a happy belated Valentine’s Day. If you’re in search of a Valentine, we just learned that our beloved Snowflake the Bear is looking for love on Bumble. Check it out…
Speaking of icons in the data community, the 2023 Data Superheroes were announced earlier this month, and they truly are an incredible group of Snowflake experts. They live for connecting with other members of the community, so be sure to view their profiles, and send them a message. A special shout out to returning Data Superhero, Yuta Hishinuma, who was recently featured as one of 30 Data Leaders to Watch in 2023!
Last month Snowflake released the Developers YouTube channel with over 100 video tutorials deep diving into Snowflake best practices, tips, insights, and app development trends. This channel is perfect for app developers, data scientists, ml engineers, devops engineers, cybersecurity engineers, and really anyone who builds with Snowflake!
As you know, Snowflake Summit is coming up in June, which will be here before we know it. Tickets are likely to sell out this year, so if you’re planning to join us be sure to act soon. The Data Superheroes will attest that the Data Heroes Hub was the place to be at Summit last year. If you don’t believe us, here’s photo evidence…
Don’t build alone. Meet your peers at Snowflake User Groups
Here are the user group meetings coming up in February and March:
Austin User Group: 2/22 — Andy Brown, User Group Leader, will be sharing implementation cloning following a networking session.
Dallas User Group: 2/23 — Joyce, data super hero, will be sharing what it takes to be a data super hero as well as her most recent book.
Des Moines User Group: 3/7 — Hosting their first in person user group with chapter leader Pete Halaczkiewicz, will share how to successfully get started with Snowflake.
Benelux User Group: 3/30 — VIO will be sharing their data platform creation through Salesforce and AWS as well as a presentation on monitoring machine learning models using Snowpark.
Don’t see your local chapter meeting? Join a chapter near you at usergroups.snowflake.com
New Quickstarts, blog posts, and trainings to help you build!
Blogs & Quickstarts
Building Data Engineering Pipelines with Snowpark for Python
Deep performance analysis with the new “query operator stats” in Snowflake
Videos
How to build an image recognition application with Snowpark, Streamlit, and PyTorch, and DALL-E 2
Building Apps with the Snowflake SQL REST API
How To Use git-flow With Snowpark To Build Production-grade Snowpark Apps
How To Build A Machine Learning Application Using Streamlit (Demo)
New Trainings
Snowflake Foundations Course: Snowflake Foundations, provides participants with an introduction to key Snowflake concepts and includes labs to reinforce the core topics.
Snowflake Data Cloud Deployment Framework : This free course introduces some of our best practices and key considerations for designing, deploying, and managing the entire Snowflake landscape for all our customers.
Perspectives from the Data Superheroes
- Daan Bakboord — Plotting F1 Circuit Locations into a map on Streamlit Cloud using Folium
- Divyansh Saxena — SnowSQL Configuration Options Reference
- Sachin Mital — Datapipeline with Glue and Snowpipe
- Shankar Narayanan — Migrating the Snowflake Identity Provider from Okta to Azure Active Directory
- Somen Swain — Simply Snowflake Shorts — Part 2
- Sudhendu Pandey — Streaming Data from Snowflake to Kafka
Congratulations to our Data Superhero of the month!
Simeon Pilgrim is a Senior Software Engineer and returning Data Superhero based in Christchurch, New Zealand. In Simeon’s words,
“I have been using Snowflake since 2016, and am a little bit of a fanboy. I really enjoy teaching people how to write good SQL, and spending my spare time answering other people StackOverflow questions. It’s the same joy as write a fun data exploration SQL.”
Congrats to Simeon for being a top contributor on our Stack Overflow forum!
If everyone’s favorite groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, is correct in his predictions, those of us based in the northern hemisphere still have 4 more weeks of winter. But even still, March will be here before you know it. So until then…keep building!
Q&A Your Way
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