Snowflake Developers & Community Update — March 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.
March Editor’s note: Howard Lio
Hello everybody, I am the Community Manager responsible for our Data Superhero program and it’s my turn to publish our updates from the Community and Developers team. We look forward to seeing you this Spring at our Data For Breakfast events — you probably spotted some of our Data Superheroes speaking in action!
Way to go Veronika Durgin for speaking at D4B Boston!
Way to go Ludwig Sewall for speaking at D4B Stockholm!
Way to go Ruchi Soni and Sudhendu for representing at D4B Dehli!
Way to go Isabella Renzetti and Mike Droog for presenting at D4B Milan!
Find your next Data For Breakfast event in your area here!
Join the fun and register for Snowflake Summit!
This is one event you don’t want to miss in June! 4 days of amazing sessions, keynotes, social events, data experts and more. Come meet the Snowflake team and your fellow builders in Las Vegas and register for Snowflake Summit here!
New Quickstarts, videos, and trainings for all builders!
Quickstarts
Getting Started with Snowpipe Streaming and Amazon MSK
Getting Started with Snowpark for Machine Learning on SageMaker
New Open Source project to speed up Python integration testing
Performing integration testing against Snowflake just got faster with the new vcrpy open source tool. Check out the article and contribute to the project on Snowflake Labs.
Videos
Be sure to like and subscribe!
- Discover Your Top Customers Ranked by Sales Using Snowpark and Hex
- Snowflake 101: What are UDFs?
- A Conversation with Three Snowflake Partners
- Get Started with Hex and Snowpark in Under 2 Minutes
- Snowflake 101: What is Snowpark?
- Snowflake Shares How It Instrumented Telemetry For The Snowflake ServiceNow Connector
- Unpacking The App Building Benefits Of Unistore And Native Apps
- iPipeline Supports the Sale and Service of Life Insurance and Annuities | DEMO
- How The Streamlit Team Uses Streamlit For Itself
- Using Snowpark For Python To Build ML Workflows: A Hands-On Lab
- Learn to Take Full Advantage of Your Jupyter Notebook
New Trainings
Registration for the SnowPro™ Advanced: Data Analyst Certification is now available!
The SnowPro Advanced: Data Analyst Certification Exam will test your knowledge of advanced concepts and your ability to apply comprehensive data cloud analysis principles using Snowflake and its components.
To find out more about the exam please review the Exam Guide. For more information on Snowflake’s Technical Certifications, please visit us here.
Perspectives from our Data Superheroes
See what our Data Superheroes are building and exploring with Snowflake!
James Weakley shares his tool measuring code coverage for all builders:
Divyansh Saxena with a cheatsheet guide on Snowpark DataFrames:
Maja Ferle using the faker Library and Python for sample data:
Rafal Stryjek share how to get started with Snowpark using Docker:
Sudhendu with a deep dive into Streamlit and data-diff.
Alexander — 2 part series on Serverless Tasks in Snowflake:
Somen Swain with a breakdown on Materialized Views:
Clark Perucho breaking down Snowflake’s Query Acceleration Service:
Sachin Mittal exploring the power of Snowflake Alerts:
Tomáš Sobotík explains working with semi-structured data in Snowflake:
Congratulations to our Data Superhero of the month!
Name: Divynash Saini
Title: Co-founder & CEO at Houseware
Congrats to Data Superhero and fellow builder, Divyansh Saini for announcing Houseware’s seed round as they come out of stealth. Divyansh and his team were the winners of the Snowflake Startup Challenge last year and it’s amazing to see their continued success!
Don’t build alone. Meet your peers at Snowflake User Groups and Build.Local events
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Check out these User Group events to meet your peers!
- Atlanta: 3/23 DSH Stewart Bryson and Kiran Yarlagadda
- Omaha: 3/23 Snowflake platform updates, fivetran journey
- Essen: 3/27 DSH, Tobias Kreuger and Uniper demo
- Berlin: 3/28 Use Case presentation by Flix
- Data Vault: 3/29 Interview with Data Superhero, David Garrison
- Austin: 3/29 Augmenting Snowflake
- Wellington: 3/29 Customer data journey
- Benelux User Group : 3/30 Vio.com will be presenting about creating a self-serve data platform with Snowflake and AWS and monitoring ML models using Snowpark.
- Auckland: 3/30 Spark and Les Mills will be sharing their customer data journey as well as what to expect in Snowflake.
- Munich: 3/30 Reaching new levels of developer experience with ProSiebenSat1 Tech Solutions
- Dublin: 4/20 Snowpark new features & Streamlit
- Brisbane: 4/20 Customer Story & what is new in Snowflake
Don’t see your local chapter meeting? Join a chapter near you at usergroups.snowflake.com
Q&A Your Way
Did you know that there are already thousands of questions and answers on Snowflake Forums and Stack Overflow? Ask or answer a question today!
Want to share your technical blog, video demo, or sample app with other Snowflake builders?
Please send it to us at developers@snowflake.com
Want to earn your cape and become a Data Superhero?
Learn more about becoming a Data Superhero here!
