Snowflake’s virtual warehouses are computing clusters that process the data analytics commands you run on the platform. Here’s what you need to know. — Snowflake has become a popular choice for enterprise data analytics because its platform enables data processing and analytic solutions that are fast, easy to use, and flexible. In the Snowflake data platform, “virtual warehouses” are a key concept, roughly analogous to clusters in Kubernetes or virtual machines on AWS Elastic…

“Big Data” is a broad field that covers at least five disciplines and three job titles. While data science, data engineering, and data analytics are definitely overlapping career paths, there are important differences between them. Here’s the breakdown. — When thinking of the modern data industry, affectionately called “Big Data,” it’s easy to lump all “data people” into the catch-all term “data scientist.” But the reality is that there are many related disciplines necessary for handling Big Data problems at the enterprise level.

GitHub Copilot is hilarious, and I love it. These are all real suggestions that I’ve seen while using GitHub Copilot in VS Code. — Have you tried GitHub Copilot yet? Love it or hate it, it has some hilarious comment auto-suggestions. Enjoy this “just for fun” programming article. WARNING: This article contains explicit language. Reader discretion advised. Typing //

When using fetch or other asynchronous calls in JavaScript, there’s a trick to returning the desired response, whether you use async / await or the Promise syntax. Let’s fetch some data! — Have you ever wanted to slam your head against the wall because a pending JavaScript Promise just won’t return the response you want? Let’s fix that. Author’s note: Try running the code samples in a new tab in your web browser.

So, you’ve been putting off upgrading packages, and now you need to quickly update things to the latest versions to keep your security tight and your boss happy? I’ve got the article for you. — This week, I’ve been busy with a work project to upgrade Docusaurus (the React-based documentation static site generator from Facebook) from some weird alpha version to the new 2.0 version that was just released.

Does your home gym include these 3 underrated tools? — #1 — Gymnastic Rings Alternative: Over-the-door Pull Up Bar I’ve been living in the jungle in Mexico for the last year and a half, so I’ve only been able to use a traditional gym when traveling. Despite not doing any barbell training, my back is in the best shape of my life from a…

How to find your next tech job in the “Hidden Job Market” — Have you ever had the feeling that applying for jobs is like sending your resume directly into a black hole? “Glass Door tells us, that for every corporate position that’s posted, on average, there are 250 job seekers that apply. Typically, only 2 to…

To redirect a user to another webpage with JavaScript, you’ll need to decide if you want the current page to stay in the browser’s history, meaning whether or not the Back button should work. — It happens all the time — you’re writing some piece of JavaScript and need to redirect a user to a different part of the site, or another webpage entirely. There are two “vanilla JS” (vanilla JavaScript, without any npm package dependencies) solutions for redirects supported by modern browsers.

And boosted their company culture — “For us [at Honeycomb], the cost [of AWS Lambda] is a function of three things,” wrote engineering manager Ben Hartshorne on the Honeycomb blog, describing his team’s recent cost-cutting efforts. According to Ben: ARM architecture for the Lambda was cheaper than x86 Smaller Lambdas with less RAM were cheaper than…