From the course: Intro to Snowflake for Devs, Data Scientists, Data Engineers
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The data cloud - Snowflake Tutorial
From the course: Intro to Snowflake for Devs, Data Scientists, Data Engineers
The data cloud
- Before we finish this module on builder workloads, I want to come back to an idea that we talked about in the very first video of the course, but I suspect might resonate more now than at the beginning. Here it is. Snowflake is the data cloud. If I had a mic, I'd drop it for effect. I guess I actually do have a mic, but it's attached. It would be hard to drop, and I think some people would get angry at me. Anyway, here's my interpretation of what that means. I grew up in an era where the companies I worked for were usually already deep into their cloud migrations. If we had big servers sitting around in a closet, I was not aware of them. But many people more experienced than me, remember times when everyone stored their data in on-prem servers that they owned, and the data was physically siloed in different closets and different regions, et cetera. But even those of us who grew up in the cloud era have experienced a slightly more nuanced version of data silos. You have one system…
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