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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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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Databricks immediately comes to mind as well. When it's assembled right, it's a fantastic tooling.

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?

I think it's a key area snowflake have been lacking. Built in nice dashboards that are as easy to throw together as a streamlit app would be a killer feature. Their lack in this area was a key issue for me.

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

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The company announcements are https://blog.streamlit.io/snowflake-to-acquire-streamlit/ and

https://investors.snowflake.com/news/news-details/2022/Snowf...

We changed the URL above to what seems to be the best third party article (for reasons I was explaining in a different thread earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30531133).

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.

It's very strange. There must be some vision to create a unified BI + Data Science platform but it's very pie-in-the-sky feeling to me.

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.

It's very strange. There must be some vision to create a unified BI + Data Science platform but it's very pie-in-the-sky feeling to me.

True, I’d say that BI is saturated with a number of well built products, but perhaps the purchasers of those products aren’t fully aware of what’s available?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's very strange. There must be some vision to create a unified BI + Data Science platform but it's very pie-in-the-sky feeling to me.

True, I’d say that BI is saturated with a number of well built products, but perhaps the purchasers of those products aren’t fully aware of what’s available?

Yeah the market is super fragmented but enormous. Even huge players like Tableau have a small slice of the market. It's really wild-west feeling and no one is confident they know what they're doing when it comes to implementation/ops.
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