Maturing the Snowflake Data Cloud: A Templated Approach to Delivering and Governing Snowflake in Large Enterprises

This project-oriented book provides a hands-on approach to designing, developing, and templating your Snowflake platform delivery, with practical guidance and advice to accelerate and mature your Snowflake journey. It 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 organizations data usage policies. The patterns delivered are used for production deployment and are proven in real-world use.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 461 pages
Publication date: 18 May 2023
Publisher: APress

This project-oriented book offers a practical approach to designing, developing, and templating your Snowflake platform delivery. Written by experienced Snowflake practitioners, the book provides valuable guidance and advice to accelerate and mature your Snowflake journey. By working through the examples, you will develop the skills, knowledge, and expertise to expand your organization's core Snowflake capability and prepare for future 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, guardrails, external monitoring, or 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 the skills, knowledge, and expertise to accelerate Snowflake adoption within your organization. The patterns delivered within this book are used for production deployment and have been proven in real-world use. The examples in the book will help you succeed in an environment where governance policies, processes, and procedures oversee and control every aspect of your Snowflake platform development and delivery life cycle. While your environment may not be exact, these patterns will provide you with a solid foundation for building a successful Snowflake platform.

Weight: 894g
Dimension: 176 x 253 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781484293393
Edition number: 1st ed.