Over the past few years, we’ve seen incredible growth in the number of data apps being built on Snowflake, including large customer-facing apps from companies such as BlackRock, Instacart, Lacework, and others. We’re proud of the fact that our platform helps developers bring these applications to life faster, scale better, and provide more powerful insights to their users, whether they be employees, partners, or customers.
Risk management is a highly dynamic discipline these days. Stress testing is a particular area that has become even more important throughout the pandemic. Stress tests conducted by authorities such as the Federal Reserve Bank in the US are designed to keenly monitor the financial stability of the banking sector, especially during economic downturns such as those brought on by the pandemic.
Apache Impala is used today by over 1,000 customers to power their analytics in on premise as well as cloud-based deployments. Large user communities of analysts and developers benefit from Impala’s fast query execution, helping them get their work done more effectively. For these users performance and concurrency are always top of mind.
You have dedicated tons of man-hours to building your product and strengthening your service. You are trying to ensure that your application is useful but, above all, that it succeeds at making users come back for more. But then, *gasp*, they don’t! Why? What went wrong? How can you get them to come back?
Today, we’re excited to announce the Unravel Winter Release ! This winter release introduces major enhancements and improvements across the platform, including comprehensive cost management for Databricks, support for Delta Lake on Databricks, data observability for Google BigQuery, interactive pre-check before installation and upgrade.
