Konstantinos Kloudas from Snowflake Berlin will give a talk as part of the Advanced Data Systems course on December 2.

Snowflake’s journey from Batch to Streaming

Abstract: In this talk we will see how Snowflake evolved from a classic batch processor, where the whole input dataset is stored on disk waiting to be processed, to a stream processor where data can be processed as it comes. In addition, we will see how it did this without breaking the “single-product” principle where everything is exposed as classic Tables and users do not need to learn a new paradigm to leverage its new capabilities.

Bio: Kostas Kloudas is a Software Engineer at Snowflake working in the Streaming Team for the last 3,5 years. Before joining Snowflake he was working for data Artisans, the original creators of Apache Flink, for which he is a Committer and a PMC. Kostas holds a PhD from Inria, France.