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Warehouse Design and Architecture in Snowflake

Learn how to design and optimize data warehouses in Snowflake. This course will teach you how to architect, configure, and manage virtual warehouses for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

Yasir Khan - Pluralsight course - Warehouse Design and Architecture in Snowflake
by Yasir Khan

What you'll learn

Snowflake's unique architecture offers immense flexibility and scalability, but designing warehouses effectively to balance performance, cost, and concurrency can be a challenge for data teams.

In this course, Warehouse Design and Architecture in Snowflake, you’ll gain the ability to architect and manage Snowflake virtual warehouses tailored to diverse workloads and operational needs.

First, you’ll explore the core architectural principles behind Snowflake's compute and storage separation, including how virtual warehouses interact with global services and caching layers.

Next, you’ll discover how to design virtual warehouse strategies that align with workload types such as BI, ELT, and real-time streaming, and how to right-size compute to meet performance and concurrency demands.

Finally, you’ll learn how to configure, monitor, and optimize warehouses using performance metrics, cost controls, and scheduling strategies to ensure efficient operations.

When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Snowflake warehouse design and architecture needed to build scalable, performant, and cost-effective data solutions.

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Yasir Khan - Pluralsight course - Warehouse Design and Architecture in Snowflake
Yasir Khan

Dr. Yasir Khan is a global tech consultant and 38Labs founder. He's passionate about digital transformation, data & AI, and regularly shares technology insights on Pluralsight.

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