Daniel Steinhold | Reputations

LLM Observability + Evaluations provides tools to track and optimize GenAI apps. You can monitor key metrics like groundedness and relevance, which is crucial for debugging, ensuring compliance, and tuning...

How can I monitor and optimize my Generative AI workloads?

Provisioned Throughput is a new feature that guarantees inference performance for production-grade AI applications. This helps eliminate issues with spiky latency or throttling.

How can I ensure reliable performance for my production AI apps?

Snowflake introduced several tools: Data Science Agent: Turns natural language prompts into working code within Snowflake Notebooks to accelerate model experimentation. Cortex Agent APIs: Allow developers...

How is Snowflake speeding up the development of AI apps and models?

Snowflake Intelligence is a new conversational interface designed for business users. It allows them to analyze both structured and unstructured data using natural language, without needing to write any...

What is Snowflake Intelligence?

Through a new feature called Delta Direct. It converts Delta table metadata into the Iceberg format on the fly, allowing you to access Parquet files directly without data re-ingestion or duplication.

How does Snowflake allow access to Delta Lake data without re-ingesting it?

Dynamic Tables now support externally managed Iceberg tables, feature faster refreshes with latencies as low as 15 seconds, and have better built-in handling of slowly changing dimensions (SCDs).

What improvements were made to Dynamic Tables for real-time pipelines?

Yes. With the new dbt Projects in Snowflake, you can now build and run dbt natively on the platform. This eliminates the need for separate orchestration tools, infrastructure, or IDEs.

Can I run my dbt projects natively in Snowflake?

Yes, Snowpipe Streaming has been significantly upgraded. It is now 3–5x cheaper, supports inline transformations, and includes a multi-language REST interface for greater flexibility.

Are there any updates to make data streaming more efficient?

OpenFlow is Snowflake’s native, multi-modal data integration platform. It is designed to reduce the complexity of ETL/ELT by moving any type of data (structured, unstructured, batch, streaming) across...

What is OpenFlow and how does it help with data integration?

The key message is that the Snowflake platform is evolving beyond just data storage and analysis into a comprehensive environment to build with data. The announcements focused on providing native tools...

What was the overarching message from Snowflake Summit 2025?