Bought this book as I work in data warehousing, but I wasn't very familiar with Snowflake (aside from hearing a ton of hype about it). The first few chapters explaining the history of the company and data warehouse tech are pretty useful and interesting. You could probably find the same information on the internet, but in my case, I prefer books, so I can actually sit down and focus on cohesive and linear information.
The rest of the book has very little to do with Snowflake specifically. It just goes industry by industry and basically just mentions uses cases for data warehouses, and big data generally, with an emphasis on inter and intra company sharing via the cloud. Got kind of tedious and felt mostly like a marketing pitch. A lot of mention of what perhaps makes Snowflake unique, in that they have a data exchange enabled by their technology.
I was a bit let down that this was advertised as a book "by Frank Slootman" when really he just wrote an intro and a conclusion. If you work in the data field, it does seem worthwhile to learn more about Snowflake. There are quite possibly cheaper or better ways to do that than this book. But if you just want to read for a couple hours and have the information neatly laid out for you for, this book serves that purpose decently.
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