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Snowflake acquires Streamlit for $800M to help customers build data-based apps

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Re: Snowflake acquires Streamlit for $800M to help customers build data-based apps

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Is this strange to anyone else? Streamlit and Snowflake occupy fairly different niches.

Not really? Wouldn’t the streamlit app/notebook/editor experience compliment the snowflake data warehousing solutions well?

Re: Snowflake acquires Streamlit for $800M to help customers build data-based apps

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Very cool.

A few months ago I tried building a configuration manager for robusta.dev using streamlit.

Basically I wanted to autogenerate a frontend for arbitrary Pydantic models (in my case configurations of Kubernetes automations). The tooling was still lacking so I abandoned the project, but it was really cool just how far I could get with writing almost no code. A way better experience than all the no code tools IMO

Re: Snowflake acquires Streamlit for $800M to help customers build data-based apps

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Is this strange to anyone else? Streamlit and Snowflake occupy fairly different niches.

I'm knee deep in the data tooling space myself and it's quirky at first but not too surprising.

This resembles the Google Cloud acquisition of Kaggle, or Microsoft's acquisition of Github. For better or for worse, these larger players / platforms are buying a large community around the hip tool. Snowflake wants to be a giant data platform company, not just "another data warehouse".

Re: Snowflake acquires Streamlit for $800M to help customers build data-based apps

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Is this strange to anyone else? Streamlit and Snowflake occupy fairly different niches.

Not really? Wouldn’t the streamlit app/notebook/editor experience compliment the snowflake data warehousing solutions well?

Yeah it definitely would. Historically, to OP's hesitation, databases & data warehouses haven't purchased BI tools, application layers, etc. But this is starting to change (e.g. Databricks bought Redash, an open source BI platform)

Re: Snowflake acquires Streamlit for $800M to help customers build data-based apps

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post #7

Is this strange to anyone else? Streamlit and Snowflake occupy fairly different niches.

Does this compete with or complement their Snowpark feature?

Complement. Snowpark pushes compute to the SQL engine. That’s a better model for Streamlit’s dashboard code anyway :)

Re: Snowflake acquires Streamlit for $800M to help customers build data-based apps

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post #6

Is this strange to anyone else? Streamlit and Snowflake occupy fairly different niches.

I'm knee deep in the data tooling space myself and it's quirky at first but not too surprising. This resembles the Google Cloud acquisition of Kaggle, or Microsoft's acquisition of Github. For better or for worse, these larger players / platforms are buying a large community around the hip tool. Snowflake wants to be a giant data platform company, not just "another data warehouse".

No stranger than Confluence acquiring Chartio. Snowflake has been making some interesting ventures and investments (eg Sigma Computing).

As a user of data tooling, bundling data pipelining, cloud warehousing, visualization, and MLOPs into a consistent environment is helpful and lowers tooling cost. Streamlit is frankly fantastic and one of my personal favorite tools.

Source: Myself, and I have family that run Datateer, an up and coming pipelining/analytics ops player in the space.

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