Snowflake articles

Tips, integrations, and architecture patterns for Snowflake — including external tables, Iceberg interop, and cost optimization.

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Snowflake to Iceberg migration — Snowflake tables flowing into an Apache Iceberg lakehouse, illustrating a hybrid multi-engine architecture where Snowflake remains a valued component

SnowflakeApache IcebergLakeOpsData PlatformsMay 25, 2026

Snowflake to Iceberg Smooth Migration

A practical guide for senior data engineers expanding Snowflake into a multi-engine Iceberg lakehouse. Covers five production tools — LakeOps, managed Iceberg, Open Catalog sync, Spark, and AWS Glue — with migration patterns, operational trade-offs, and a phased rollout sequence.

David W

17 min read

Modern lakehouse architecture: LakeOps control plane for autonomous management and optimization — observability, compaction, routing, AI guardrails, and governance above Iceberg on S3, with catalogs and multi-engine compute (Spark, Trino, Snowflake, Databricks, and more)

Data PlatformsApache IcebergSnowflakeDatabricksMay 7, 2026

From Databricks and Snowflake to an Open Data Platform

For a decade, Snowflake and Databricks defined enterprise data. Then the lakehouse emerged — open formats on open storage. What was missing was the operational layer to make it work at scale. An autonomous control plane turns a lakehouse into a managed open data platform — without the lock-in.

Jonathan Saring

18 min read