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What's New in Snowflake: Summer 2025
By Jeff SkoldbergSep 18, 202516 min read

What's New in Snowflake: Summer 2025

Jeff walks us through all new features in Snowflake released in July and August 2025.

What's New in Snowflake: June 2025
By Jeff SkoldbergJul 13, 20257 min read

What's New in Snowflake: June 2025

Jeff walks us through the most important changes in Snowflake in June 2025.

Snowflake Summit 2025: Product Announcement Recap
By Jeff SkoldbergJun 4, 202511 min read

Snowflake Summit 2025: Product Announcement Recap

Discover the biggest announcements from Snowflake Summit 2025, including innovations in platform economics, data governance, AI agents, and more - shaping the future of data and AI for modern businesses.

What's New In Snowflake: March 2025 Product Updates
By Jeff SkoldbergMay 22, 20256 min read

What's New In Snowflake: March 2025 Product Updates

In this post, Jeff covers the key features released by Snowflake in March 2025, including automatic sensitive data classification, schema-level replication for failover groups, asynchronous child jobs, and expanded support for dynamic tables.

Best Practices for dbt Workflows, Part 3: Slim Scheduled Builds
By Alex CarusoMar 25, 20259 min read

Best Practices for dbt Workflows, Part 3: Slim Scheduled Builds

Alex gives the best practice for dbt workflows in Snowflake in a 3-part series, explaining how to effectively use slim scheduled builds.

Best Practices for dbt Workflows, Part 2: Slim CI/CD Builds
By Alex CarusoMar 19, 20256 min read

Best Practices for dbt Workflows, Part 2: Slim CI/CD Builds

Alex gives the best practice for dbt workflows in Snowflake in a 3-part series, describing some techniques for achieving slim builds in CI/CD pipelines.

Best Practices for dbt Workflows, Part 1: Concepts & Slim Local Builds
By Alex CarusoMar 13, 20259 min read

Best Practices for dbt Workflows, Part 1: Concepts & Slim Local Builds

Alex gives the best practice for dbt workflows in Snowflake in a 3-part series, outlining key concepts and slim local builds.

Sending Alerts to MS Teams from Snowflake
By Jeff SkoldbergFeb 5, 20256 min read

Sending Alerts to MS Teams from Snowflake

Jeff provides a detailed walkthrough of how to send alerts to Teams from Snowflake

Sending Alerts to Slack from Snowflake
By Jeff SkoldbergJan 29, 20257 min read

Sending Alerts to Slack from Snowflake

Jeff provides a detailed walkthrough of how to send alerts to Slack from Snowflake!

Snowflake Pricing Explained | 2025 Billing Model Guide
By Niall Woodward & Ian WhitestoneJan 18, 20259 min read

Snowflake Pricing Explained | 2025 Billing Model Guide

In this post, Ian & Niall do a deep dive into Snowflake's pricing model and explain the billing for each service.

Snowflake Cost Management: Insights from 100+ Customers
By Ian WhitestoneMay 13, 202410 min read

Snowflake Cost Management: Insights from 100+ Customers

Ian shares a framework for Snowflake Cost Management based on the learnings from working with over 100 Snowflake customers.

Up & Running With the Snowflake Connector for Python
By Ian WhitestoneApr 27, 20246 min read

Up & Running With the Snowflake Connector for Python

Get up & running in <5 minutes with the Snowflake Connector for Python. Ian covers how the core concepts for working with the Python package then dives into a number of practical, real-world examples.