Browsing Through Colorado with Tailscale
By Bernie Pruss
Websites decide what to show you, and how hard to check you, based on where your connection appears to come from.
Blog & Insights
Practical guidance on data platforms, governance and analytics, drawn from the work of building them.
Restricting Network Access to Snowflake
By Bernie Pruss
Consistent network access for a distributed team and the automation behind it.
Recovering Business Logic from Power BI
By Evan Skamarock
Translating Power BI reporting logic into a governed Snowflake semantic view
Building a Verified-Query Flywheel
By Evan Skamarock
How usage signals, verified queries and regression tests guide improvements to an analytics agent’s governed data model.
How Clean Origin Used Data to Double Regional Sales, Optimize 52,000 SKUs, and Exit Successfully
By Cloud Data Consulting
How Clean Origin brought sales, inventory and marketing data into Snowflake to support SKU-level analysis and self-service reporting.
Snowflake vs Databricks: Which Cloud Data Platform is Right for You?
By Cloud Data Consulting
Compare Snowflake and Databricks by architecture, workloads and operating costs, from the perspective of a Snowflake-focused consultancy.
How to Reduce Snowflake Costs: A Practical Guide
By Cloud Data Consulting
Identify Snowflake cost drivers and evaluate warehouse sizing, query patterns and operating controls against your workload requirements.
Building a Data Governance Framework: A Practical Guide
By Cloud Data Consulting
A practical guide to data ownership, shared definitions and controls, with steps for introducing governance into everyday work.
What is the Modern Data Stack? A Practical Guide for 2026
By Cloud Data Consulting
A practical guide to ingestion, storage, transformation and analytics, with governance across the workflow and tools chosen around your needs.
Validating Schema Changes Using SQL Set Operations in Snowflake
By Cloud Data Consulting
Compare schema objects across Snowflake environments to identify unexpected changes before deploying to production.
Validating Data Transformations Using SQL Set Operations in Snowflake
By Cloud Data Consulting
Use SQL set operations in Snowflake to compare datasets and investigate unexpected differences after a transformation change.
Agile Data Analytics Program
By Evan Skamarock
How business teams, governance owners and engineers coordinate priorities and delivery within a data analytics program.
The really agile way to build Data Analytics Platforms!
By Cloud Data Consulting
A practitioner’s account of how dbt changed the way his team builds, tests and iterates on data warehouses.
Why we love Snowflake
By Cloud Data Consulting
How we organize Snowflake accounts, environments and access roles to give teams a consistent foundation for development and operation.
Our Snowflake Framework
By Cloud Data Consulting
Our Snowflake framework combines least-privilege access with naming and environment conventions that teams can use and maintain.