Engineering
Snowflake Query Optimization: Cut Compute Without Rewriting Dashboards
A practical guide to Snowflake query optimization: manual tuning (prune SELECT *, push predicates, clustering) and deterministic in-path rewrites — no LLM, fail-open.
DK Dan Kowalski Jun 17 →
Engineering
Snowflake Query Result Cache: How It Stays Correct
How Snowflake's query result cache works, its limits, and how a verified, false-positive-intolerant proxy cache stays correct across warehouses and sessions.
RM Rina Mehta Jun 16 →
Engineering
How chukei speaks Snowflake's wire protocol without breaking a single client
An engineering deep-dive into the transparent wire-protocol proxy that sits in the Snowflake query path, passes auth straight through, streams results, and fails open.
DK Dan Kowalski Jun 11 →
Engineering
Deterministic SQL rewrites that are always safe to apply
How chukei rewrites expensive Snowflake query shapes inline using an equivalence-tested, deterministic AST rule-pack — no LLM on the hot path, fail-open by design.
DK Dan Kowalski May 19 →