Snow Report: What's Happening At Snowflake In December

What's going to happen in AI in 2025? Read December's edition of the Snow Report to get the predictions from top data AI experts. Also in this issue, a demo video on how to get started with Snowflake Notebooks (now in GA), info about Open Catalog, news about updates to Hybrid Tables and the Native App Framework, and much more!

The Great Convergence: How Martech and Adtech Are Uniting Around First-Party Data on Snowflake

A revolution is underway as martech and adtech continue to converge around first-party data — and the revolution is happening on Snowflake. This seismic shift isn't a mere trend; it’s a game-changing transformation that will continue to shape the way that marketers and advertisers connect with consumers amid increasing privacy regulations, new identity frameworks and rising customer expectations.

The AI Tipping Point: What Sports Organizations Need to Know for 2025

Sports organizations have made major strides in recent years. Teams across the industry are transforming into data-driven organizations on the fan engagement, monetization and sports operations sides of the business. This trend is perfectly timed with the AI hype cycle. AI is proving that it’s here to stay. While 2023 brought panic and wonder, and 2024 saw widespread experimentation, 2025 will be the year sports teams get serious about AI's applications.

Why Short-Lived Connections Are Killing Your Performance! | Kafka Developer Mistakes

Constantly starting and stopping Apache Kafka producers and consumers? That’s a recipe for high resource usage and inefficiency. Short-lived connections are heavy on resources, and can slow down your whole cluster. Keep them running to boost performance, cut latency, and get the most out of your Kafka setup.

Cloudera announces 'Interoperability Ecosystem' with founding members AWS and Snowflake

Today enterprises can leverage the combination of Cloudera and Snowflake—two best-of-breed tools for ingestion, processing and consumption of data—for a single source of truth across all data, analytics, and AI workloads. But now AWS customers will gain more flexibility, data utility, and complexity, supporting the modern data architecture.