The Elastic Data Warehouse: The Origin Story of Snowflake
San Mateo, California. Sometime in 2012. Two men stand before a whiteboard covered in diagrams, arrows, and crossed-out ideas. They've been at this for months. Coffee cups stack up. Takeout containers accumulate. The diagrams keep getting more complex, then simpler, then complex again. Benoît Dageville and Thierry Cruanes are arguing. Again.