“Visual” Snowflake — Make Snowflake Look Better

Years ago, I was not truly impressed right away with Snowflake: their web UI was rather poor and old-looking. But what I loved about them in the first place was the clear separation between computer and storage, and the way they were gradually trying to simplify trivial tasks for the end user.

Ten years ago I started my journey in the cloud with Amazon Redshift, and it was unpleasant to wait for one hour or so to start a cluster, do not so much with it, cost you a tone of money, and finally shut it down because it was not worth the effort…

Over the past few years I posted a lot of articles about Snowflake, as Snowflake “Data Superhero” as well. A lot of these articles included small Python projects where I tried to bring small data visualization features that enhanced the user experience with the cloud data platform. The impact was:

• I’ve been selected as a “Snowflake Data Superhero”, because I was promoting their platform, and I was understanding what they do.
• I gain new customers for the consulting companies I worked for at that time — all Snowflake partners.
• I had job and contract opportunities based on the free open-source tools I proposed through this blog.
• I increased my number of followers without ever promoting this blog…