Snowflake Developers & Community Update — October 2023 Edition 🎃

In this monthly update, we share handpicked resources and news about Snowflake developer programs, user groups, discussion channels, advocacy opportunities, and open-source projects.

October Editor’s Note: Howard Lio

Hello everybody, Happy Halloween! While you wear your new costumes for trick or treating, take a look at our tasty builder resources in our October newsletter. We look forward to seeing you this winter at our upcoming Snowflake Builder events below — hope to see you there!

Join us for BUILD

Join us for Snowflake BUILD, the DEV conference for AI and Apps! On December 5–6, join other developers, engineers, data scientists, and startups for two full days of sessions focused on building and monetizing apps, data pipelines, and ML workflows. Register today!

DATA CLOUD ACADEMY COURSE: BI ANALYTICS BOOTCAMP

Learn how to deliver meaningful insights with Snowflake and the power of our BI ecosystem. This free course shares 12–20 minute technical demos from some of our favorite BI partners for use cases across sales, marketing, finance, or product and IT teams. Get started now!

Snowflake Demos

Discover hands-on technical assets (videos, blogs, quickstarts, code, and more) that show how to solve common use cases with Snowflake. Check out the Snowflake Demos today!

• Interactive Data Analysis With Streamlit
• LLM Prompt Engineering with Snowflake
• Equipment Analytics with a Snowflake Native App
• LLM Inference with Snowpark Optimized Warehouses

We’re always adding new demos to the Demo Hub! Have an idea for a demo you’d like to see? Let us know by submitting your idea!

New Dev Blogs

The Snowflake Community has been publishing full speed to showcasing products and features ranging from Snowflake Native Apps, data ingestion, Streamlit in Snowflake, LLMs, cost optimization, and more!

Here are a few new posts from October; see our Medium blog for them all.

• Prompt Engineering the GPT-4 model and evaluating LLM response using a Streamlit app
• Convert your PySpark code to Snowpark code using SnowConvert!
• Snowflake Supports IF [NOT] EXISTS at Column Level | by Qinyi Ding
• Load data in Snowflake without writing code | by Arthur Gyldenege
• 3 brand new ways to derive query insights in Snowflake
• Fine-tuning Llama2 using Snowpark Container Services | by Eda Johnson | Snowflake | Oct, 2023 | Medium
• Manage Network Traffics on Snowflake Using Network Rules | by Divyansh Saxena
• Snowflake Alert and Email Notification with Usecase — 2 | by Alexander

New & Updated Quickstarts

Get started with tutorial-style Quickstarts that show you step-by-step how to build on Snowflake. Check out some new and recently updated quickstarts:

• Getting Started with Azure OpenAI and Snowflake
• Getting Started With Snowpark for Python and Streamlit
• Getting Started with Data Engineering and ML using Snowpark for Python
• Getting Started with Generative AI in Snowflake and Streamlit
• LLM Prompt Engineering and Evaluation of LLM responses

For all the Quickstarts currently published, check out https://quickstarts.snowflake.com/.

Developer YouTube Channel

Here are just a few of the newest videos uploaded to our Snowflake Developers this past month. Be sure to subscribe to our channel today to see more!

• How To Build A Snowflake Native App For Data Ingestion
• Snowpark for Python: DataFrames Demo
• A Quick Look At The Latest Upgrade To Snowsight
• Deep Dive: Operationalizing Snowpark For Python
• Feature Flurry: Snowflake Performance Index
• Behind The Cape: Snowflake Query Optimization
• Behind The Cape: Data Modeling with Snowflake
• The Future of Search at Snowflake
• Build Simpler with Unistore
• How Northern Trust Builds Dynamic Data Pipelines

Data Superhero Monthly Spotlight

Name: Keith Belanger

Title: Evangelist at SQLDBM

Congrats to Data Superhero and fellow builder, Keith Belanger. You’ll find him leading our Boston User Group as well as hosting our video series, Behind the Cape which you can find on our Developer Youtube Channel above! Thanks Keith for your great work!

Upcoming User Group Meetings

Our community runs local meetings throughout the year. The following are coming up:

• November 7 | London User Group Meeting
• November 15 | New York User Group Meeting
• November 22 | Snowflake for Startups Special Interest Group
• December 6 | Boston Life Sciences User Group Meeting
• December 4–10 | Connect and build with developers near you at a BUILD Meetup!

Don’t see your local chapter meeting? Join a chapter near you at https://usergroups.snowflake.com.

BUILD.local Developer Workshops

Join the free, in-person, instructor-led workshop where you’ll learn how to build on Snowflake. Depending on your city, you’ll get hands-on experience with either Snowflake Native Apps, AI/ML, or data engineering.

The following events are upcoming:

• Denver feat. Retool | November 9
• Berlin feat. AWS | November 14
• Cape Town feat. AWS | November 14

Find an event near you at https://www.snowflake.com/build-local.

Join the Snowflake Data Heroes Community

Did you know that there are already thousands of questions and answers on Snowflake Forums and Stack Overflow? Ask or answer a question today!

Join our community of data professionals to learn, connect, share and innovate together at community.snowflake.com

There are so many exciting things going on in the Snowflake Community, and we can’t wait to see you all there! Create a community account today at https://community.snowflake.com, and don’t forget to check out https://developers.snowflake.com.

We’ll see you next month. Until then, keep building!

Want to share your technical blog, video demo, or sample app with other Snowflake builders?

Please send it to us at developers@snowflake.com.