Mar 5 · 5 min read · In large distributed systems, something that looks simple on the surface — generating a unique ID — becomes surprisingly hard. When millions of users are posting, liking, commenting, and messaging at the same time across thousands of servers, how do ...
Join discussionFeb 26 · 5 min read · “Never let perfect be the enemy of the good”. I say this to my team often, because in the data world, we have a bad habit of letting "perfect" be the enemy of "shipped." We spend months architecting
Join discussionFeb 18 · 2 min read · Artificial Intelligence agents are often described as if they can think, reason, and understand the world. In reality, they don’t think. They react. They react to the data and context they are given. And if that context is outdated, delayed, or incom...
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Feb 17 · 7 min read · In Part 1 I connected OpenClaw to Snowflake Cortex as the LLM backend. Enterprise-grade security, unified billing, data stays in Snowflake. So far so good. But after running it for a while I noticed something: most of the tokens OpenClaw burns throug...
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Feb 17 · 6 min read · I've been playing around with OpenClaw - an open-source AI assistant framework - and wanted to hook it up to Snowflake's Cortex LLM API. The idea: use enterprise-grade models like Claude Sonnet 4.5 through Snowflake's infrastructure while keeping my ...
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Feb 16 · 3 min read · ( AI, Data, NiFi, Iceberg, Polaris, Streamlit, Flink, Kafka, Python, Java, SQL, MCP, LLM, RAG, Cortex AI, AISQL, Search, Unstructured Data ) Edition: February 16, 2026 | Agentic AI, IoT Mesh, and Data Cloud Evolution Sales Kickoff Week for Snowflake...
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Feb 9 · 3 min read · 📰 All Data and AI Weekly #228-09 Feb 2026 ( AI, Data, NiFi, Iceberg, Polaris, Streamlit, Flink, Kafka, Python, Java, SQL, MCP, LLM, RAG, Cortex AI, AISQL, Search, Unstructured Data ) 🛠️ Tim Spann's Latest Projects & Content Spotlight on real-time i...
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