Snowflake – Performance Tuning and Best Practices

Snowflake Performance Tuning with charts and best practices visual illustration

Snowflake’s cloud-native architecture makes it incredibly easy to get started — but running it efficiently at scale is a whole different game. If you’ve ever faced slow queries, ballooning credit consumption, or unpredictable performance, you’re not alone. Tuning Snowflake workloads requires more than just adjusting warehouse sizes — it involves understanding how Snowflake stores data, … Read more

Apache Spark – Performance Tuning and Best Practices

Visual representation of Apache Spark performance tuning with Spark logo and performance gauge, from the blog Apache Spark – Performance Tuning and Best Practices.

Apache Spark has revolutionized the way we process large-scale data — delivering unparalleled speed, scalability, and flexibility. But as many engineers discover, achieving optimal performance in Spark is far from automatic. Your job runs — but takes longer than expected. The cluster scales — but the costs rise disproportionately. Memory errors appear out of nowhere. … Read more

Impala – Optimisation at partition level

We all know that to optimise our queries these 3 strategies are like most common : Partitioned table Bucketing Collecting Stats But sometimes a simple query will run on ALL partitions instead of one. You may notice your query should work on one partition but it will run on all partitions.Let me show you an … Read more