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Data Engineering

Real-Time Change Data Capture at Scale: Engineering Openflow's Database Replication Architecture

Openflow’s CDC architecture streams real-time changes from operational databases into Snowflake for faster analytics and AI—no fragile ETL pipelines required.
JUL 31, 2025|7 min read
Gen AI

Bridging the Gap Between LLMs and Real-World Challenges: Snowflake at ACL 2025

Snowflake AI Research shares 4 breakthrough papers accepted at ACL 2025, advancing model efficiency, document AI, text-to-SQL reliability, and LLM evaluation.
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JUL 30, 2025|7 min read

Snowflake Gen2 Warehouses: Blazing Fast Performance, Now Available on All 3 Clouds Across Expanded Regions

Snowflake’s Gen2 Warehouses deliver faster performance and enhanced capabilities—now generally available across AWS, Azure, and GCP in more global regions.
JUL 25, 2025|3 min read
Data Engineering

Supercharging DML Performance with Snowflake Gen2 Warehouses

Accelerate data modification workloads with Snowflake Gen2 Warehouses—automatically and without code changes—enabling faster pipelines and better performance.
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JUL 24, 2025|6 min read
Core Platform

Simplify SQL Workflows With New Features: Flow (->>) and UNION BY NAME

Streamline SQL development with Snowflake’s new Flow (->>) operator and UNION BY NAME, designed to reduce complexity and boost query efficiency and readability.
JUL 17, 2025|4 min read
Data Engineering

Apache Polaris™ (Incubating) 1.0 Released: A New Era for the Open Source Catalog

Apache Polaris™ (Incubating) 1.0 is here—bringing a REST-based open source catalog for modern data lakehouses with Helm chart support and new features.
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JUL 10, 2025|4 min read

Arctic Long Sequence Training (ALST): Scalable And Efficient Training For Multi-Million Token Sequences

Snowflake's ALST enables scalable training of long-context models with up to 15 million tokens using Hugging Face and DeepSpeed, all without custom modeling code.
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JUN 24, 2025|10 min read
Core Platform

Bridging the Gap: Migrating Oracle Cursor Variables Smoothly to Snowflake

Smoothly migrate Oracle PL/SQL cursor variables to Snowflake Scripting, addressing key challenges in stored procedure translation during platform transitions.
JUN 17, 2025|4 min read
Core Platform

The AI Era Demands More: Accelerate Managed Spark Migrations to Snowflake

Accelerate managed Spark migrations to Snowflake with new capabilities that simplify modernization and unlock unified data and AI performance.
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JUN 12, 2025|6 min read

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