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How Instacart Optimized Snowflake Costs by 50%

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Rajpal Paryani shares key insights and best practices on how Instacart optimized its Snowflake spend to achieve over fifty percent cost savings.

Through an optimization effort with Scott Redding, Senior Solutions Architect at Snowflake, Instacart optimized its Snowflake spend, resulting in a cost savings of more than 50%. In this video, Rajpal Paryani, Engineering Manager of Machine Learning at Instacart, shares key insights and best practices on optimizing costs in Snowflake. References in video: - teej.ghost.io/understanding-the-snowflake-query-optimizer/ - medium.com/snowflake/introducing-the-snowflake-visual-table-… Learn more about how Snowflake optimizes cost and performance for customers by both minimizing TCO and continuously improving price for performance. bit.ly/3ryKK3N

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What people say. Engineers shared this video to highlight real-world Snowflake cost optimization techniques and clarify that Instacart did not migrate off Snowflake.

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link to this video How Instacart Optimized Snowflake Costs by 50%
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How Snowflake Actually Lowered their Snowflake Costs Note that databricks employees were claiming that the savings were due to Instacart moving off of Snowflake onto Databricks. Instacart has refuted those claims and have removed their post that was being misinterpreted by databricks. https://twitter.com/sarbjeetjohal/status/1696418400313213408
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How Instacart actually lowered their Snowflake costs. Here is a good video for anyone interested in best practices to lower their Snowflake costs. Note that despite the claims from Databricks, no workloads were moved off of Snowflake onto Databricks. In fact, Instacart recently deleted their posting about using Databricks as it was being misrepresented by Databricks employees who were wrongly claiming that Instacart moved workloads. Here is a relevant tweet in that topic: https://twitter.com/sarbjeetjohal/status/1696418400313213408
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