AWS How Kubernetes halved our cloud spend, saved $3.9M/yr We were burning about $6M/yr across AWS, Azure and GCP. We immediately cut this spend in half by repatriating workloads into a new Kubernetes-based private cloud, then saved even more as the private cloud grew.
Cloud SaaS: How AWS Graviton moves money from Snowflake customers' wallets to shareholders' pockets ...a 76% product gross margin - up from 70% just over a year earlier. Furthermore, they announced approval for a $2bn stock buyback programme. Much of the savings from Graviton isn't resulting in lower prices for Snowflake customers and instead is going to stock buybacks
Data Warehouse A data warehouse for data apps Data applications' needs are different from traditional enterprise data warehouses.
Snowflake Comparing to Big Dog Snowflake It's impossible not to be impressed by the stunning success of Big Dog Snowflake, but it sucks to be compared to them all the time. However there are recent signs that Big Dog is starting to lose its bark, and there's some howling.
Yellowbrick Improving S3 performance from C++ How do we maximise S3 random IOPS throughput at different block sizes and queue depths?
