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We Switched a Snowflake Job to ASYNC. Blocked Queries Went From Zero to 8.2 Overnight.
by: Reeves SmithPublished on: 10/09/2026For two full days before a Snowflake job switched from sequential to ASYNC, its warehouse had never once recorded a blocked query. The day after cutover, the average number of blocked queries hit 8.2 at once. Nothing in the job's success or failure
A 2.5-Hour Snowflake Job Became 28 Minutes. Nobody Bought a Bigger Warehouse.
by: Reeves SmithPublished on: 10/09/2026A batch job that took two and a half hours dropped to twenty-eight minutes. Same warehouse. X-Small and Small, nothing upsized. Nobody touched the compute. The code changed shape instead.
What $1M+ Data Systems Get Wrong (And How to Fix It)
by: Reeves SmithPublished on: 24/08/2026You’ve spent over a million dollars on your data infrastructure. The dashboards gleam. The pipelines hum. But here’s the brutal truth... most high-priced data systems fail where it matters most.
The no.1 reason data projects don’t drive decisions
by: Reeves SmithPublished on: 24/08/2026Numbers get questioned. Definitions don’t match. Conversations drift into “which version is correct?” instead of “what should we do?”
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