Supercharge your development workflow with Snowflake Workspaces. Find out how it boosts productiivity and enables collaboration in this month's edition of the Snow Report. You'll also find details about this year's Startup Challenge, hosted by Snowflake and the New York Stock Exchange. The grand prize is up to $1,000,000 in investment money. You'll also get all the details about BUILD 2025 as well as information on a host of virtual events, including Startup Demo Day and a workshop titled "Unlocking AI with an Interoperable Data Mesh.".

ETL/ELT costs often rise faster than expected — hidden overages, consumption-based surprises, and hours wasted on schema fixes all add up. The result? Budgets get drained while engineering time is tied up in maintenance instead of building. In this session, we’ll show you how to get full control over pipeline costs without compromising reliability. Learn practical strategies and see a live demo of how Hevo enables transparent pricing, automated schema management, and built-in cost monitoring to help teams achieve predictable, cost-efficient data operations.

Alex Haugland shares why direct-to-database writes are “a giant cacophony of garbage”—and how data streaming fixes it.

Alex Haugland explains why @WarpStreamLabs's simplicity is exactly the Apache Kafka abstraction @cursor_ai needs.