The data platform reading list, autumn 2026
Snowflake and Databricks shipped six long guides between them this quarter. Here is who should read which.
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Whitepaper · from Snowflake
7 Snowflake Reference Architectures for Application Builders
Data application developers need a data stack architecture with built-in scalability and connectivity. A cloud data platform delivers the performance and nearly infinite autoscaling needed to launch and scale applications quickly and cost-effectively.
- Format
- Whitepaper
- Published by
- Snowflake
- Category
- Data & Analytics
- Added
- 10 Sept 2026
What’s inside
- Embedded Analytics
- Serverless Data Stack
- Streaming Data Stack
- ML and Data Science
- Application Health and Security Analytics
- Customer 360
About this whitepaper
Data application developers need a data stack architecture with built-in scalability and connectivity. A cloud data platform delivers the performance and nearly infinite autoscaling needed to launch and scale applications quickly and cost-effectively.
The Snowflake platform provides high performance and unlimited concurrency, scalability with true elasticity, and availability, tuning and data protection capabilities that take the operational burden off SRE and DevOps teams.
Most importantly, Snowflake ensures seamless connections to third-party platforms and APIs, easily fitting into existing environments.
This ebook provides detailed reference architectures for seven use cases and design patterns, including:
- Embedded Analytics
- Serverless Data Stack
- Streaming Data Stack
- ML and Data Science
- Application Health and Security Analytics
- Customer 360
- IoT
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