Maturing the Snowflake Data Cloud - Carruthers, Andrew;Ahmed, Sahir
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This project-oriented book gives you a hands-on approach to designing, developing, and templating your Snowflake platform delivery. Written by seasoned Snowflake practitioners, the book is full of practical guidance and advice to accelerate and mature your Snowflake journey. Working through the examples helps you develop the skill, knowledge, and expertise to expand your organization's core Snowflake capability and prepare for later incorporation of additional Snowflake features as they become available. Your Snowflake platform will be resilient, fit for purpose, extensible, and guarantee…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This project-oriented book gives you a hands-on approach to designing, developing, and templating your Snowflake platform delivery. Written by seasoned Snowflake practitioners, the book is full of practical guidance and advice to accelerate and mature your Snowflake journey. Working through the examples helps you develop the skill, knowledge, and expertise to expand your organization's core Snowflake capability and prepare for later incorporation of additional Snowflake features as they become available. Your Snowflake platform will be resilient, fit for purpose, extensible, and guarantee rapid, consistent, and repeatable, pattern-based deployments ready for application delivery.
When a Snowflake account is delivered there are no controls, guard rails, external monitoring, nor governance mechanisms baked in. From a large organization perspective, this book explains how to deliver your core Snowflake platform in the form of a Landing Zone, a consistent, templated approach that assumes familiarity with Snowflake core concepts and principles. The book also covers Snowflake from a governance perspective and addresses the "who can see what?" question, satisfying requirements to know for certain that your Snowflake accounts properly adhere to your organization's data usage policies.
The book provides a proven pathway to success by equipping you with skill, knowledge, and expertise to accelerate Snowflake adoption within your organization. The patterns delivered within this book are used for production deployment, and are proven in real-world use. Examples in the book help you succeed in an environment in which governance policies, processes, and procedures oversee and control every aspect of your Snowflake platform development and delivery life cycle. Your environment may not be so exacting, but you'll still benefit from the rigorous and demanding perspective this book's authors bring to the table. The book showsyou how to leverage what you already know and adds what you don't know, all applied to deliver your Snowflake accounts. You will know how to position your organization to deliver consistent Snowflake accounts that are prepared and ready for immediate application development.

What You Will LearnCreate a common, consistent deployment framework for Snowflake in your organizationEnable rapid up-skill and adoption of Snowflake, leveraging the benefits of cloud platformsDevelop a deep understanding of Snowflake administration and configurationImplement consistent, approved design patterns that reduce account provisioning timesManage data consumption by monitoring and controlling access to datasets

Who This Book Is For
Systems administrators charged with delivering a common implementationpattern for all Snowflake accounts within an organization; senior managers looking to simplify the delivery of complex technology into their existing infrastructure; developers seeking to understand guard rails, monitoring, and controls to ensure that Snowflake meets their organization's requirements; sales executives needing to understand how their data usage can be monitored and gain insights into how their data is being consumed; governance colleagues wanting to know who can see each data set, and wanting to identify toxic role combinations, and have confidence that their Snowflake accounts are properly provisioned
Autorenporträt
Andrew Carruthers is the Director for Snowflake Distribution at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). Andrew's new role is to deliver several Snowflake accounts supporting Refinitiv "final mile" data product content delivery via Snowflake Marketplace, Private Listings and Data Shares. Previously responsible for the Snowflake Corporate Data Cloud, Andrew was responsible for both ingestion data lake and consumption analytics hub, the Corporate Data Cloud services a growing customer base of over 7,000 end users. He also leads both the Centre for Enablement developing tooling, best practice and training, also the Snowflake Landing Zone provisioning Snowflake Accounts conforming to both internal standards and best practice. Andrew has almost 30 years hands-on Relational Database design, development and implementation experience starting out with Oracle in 1993. Until joining LSEG, Andrew operated as an independent IT consultant, his experience has been gained through predominantly working at major European financial institutions. Andrew is considered a visionary and thought leader within his domain with tight focus on delivery. Successfully bridging the gap between Snowflake technological capability and business usage of technology, Andrew often develops proof of concepts to showcase benefits leading to successful business outcomes. Since 2020 Andrew has immersed himself in Snowflake and is considered a Subject Matter Expert, he is CorePro certified, contributes to online forums and speaking at Snowflake events on behalf of LSEG. In recognition of his contribution to implementing Snowflake at LSEG, Andrew received the Snowflake Data Driver award, this category recognizes a technology trailblazer who has pioneered the Data Cloud into their organization. Andrew has two daughters, 20 and 22, both elite figure skaters. He has a passion for Jaguar cars having both designed and implemented modifications, and has published articles for both the Jaguar Enthusiast Magazine and Jaguar Drivers Club. Andrew enjoys 3D printing and has a mechanical engineering workshop with lathe, milling machine, TIG welder to name but a few tools, and enjoys developing his workshop skills.