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.