Snowflake was the first data warehouse designed from scratch to take advantage of Cloud economics. We’ll talk about what that means, why it was such a big deal, and how its design differs from the approaches taken by similar systems. Stay until the end for some bonus content on how Snowflake is bringing stream processing into the DBMS.

Zoom link: https://cmu.zoom.us/my/jignesh

Bio:
Dan Sotolongo is a Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake, working to make Snowflake the best place to develop and operate data pipelines. He enjoys thinking about databases, programming languages, and distributed systems, and cares about making people's lives better.