Understanding the Architectural Layers

Snowy Analytics is a B2C SaaS company that uses Snowflake to power reporting across their product, finance, and marketing teams.

Each team runs queries independently, against the same underlying data. Behind the scenes, Snowflake is doing a lot of work to make that possible - storing the data, executing the queries, and coordinating everything in between.

Understanding which part of Snowflake is responsible for which job is fundamental to working with the platform effectively.