Here are five standout moments from this year’s event, which took place June 13 through 16:
What do you do after spending two decades helping to develop other companies’ advanced, parallel databases? If you’re Benoit Dageville, who has a doctorate in computer science, you start your own advanced, parallel database company, name it Snowflake and then reshape the database industry by creating a cloud-native database.
Speaking to a packed audience at the Snowflake Summit in Las Vegas, Dageville said he took one main lesson from his experiences: Simplicity must come from the bottom up. If you want a simple-to-use system, the system must be simple throughout its design.
“Simplicity is not a layer you can add,” said Dageville, who serves as Snowflake’s president of products.
Snowflake, now in its 10th year, is furthering that simplicity in the data cloud with app development frameworks, security features and a host of other new products, all designed to help companies better utilize their vast troves of data.
Snowflake’s Benoit Dageville Seeks Simplicity
President Of Products, Snowflake
You cannot put lipstick on a pig. Once you’re messy, you can never get simple.”
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BENOIT DAGEVILLE
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