What this book covers
Chapter 1, Discovering Snowpark, will guide you through Snowpark and its unique capabilities. You will learn how to utilize Python with Snowpark and how to implement it for various workloads. By the end of this chapter, you will grasp Snowpark’s functionalities and benefits, including faster data processing, improved data quality, and reduced costs. These guided chapters aim to give you an all-encompassing understanding of Snowpark and how to leverage its value for your specific use cases.
Chapter 2, Establishing a Foundation with Snowpark, teaches you how to configure and operate Snowpark, establish coding style and structure, and explore workloads. You will also acquire practical knowledge and skills to work efficiently with Snowpark, including setting up the environment, structuring the code, and utilizing it for different workloads.
Chapter 3, Simplifying Data Processing Using Snowpark, teaches users how to work with data in Snowpark. It covers data collection, preparation, transformation, aggregation, and analysis. By the end of this chapter, users will gain practical knowledge and skills for managing data sources, cleaning and transforming data, and performing advanced analysis tasks.
Chapter 4, Building Data Engineering Pipelines with Snowpark, covers building reliable data pipelines, effective debugging and logging, efficient deployment using DataOps, and test-driven development for Snowpark. This chapter will equip users with practical skills for developing, testing, and deploying data pipelines, resulting in reliable and efficient channels in Snowpark.
Chapter 5, Developing Data Science Projects with Snowpark, covers the use of Snowpark for data science projects, as well as exploring the data science pipeline, which includes data preparation, exploration, and model training featuring Snowpark. The material caters to data scientists and other professionals looking to use Snowpark to tackle extensive data processing and construct precise machine-learning models.
Chapter 6, Deploying and Managing ML Models with Snowpark, explores implementing machine learning models in Snowpark and constructing a feature store. Additionally, readers can learn to integrate model registry into Snowpark and monitor and operationalize their ML models. This chapter caters to data scientists and experts who aspire to master the techniques of deploying and administering their machine-learning models competently with Snowpark.
Chapter 7, Developing a Native Application with Snowpark, will explore the Native App Framework and how to develop, deploy, manage, and monetize a Native App using Snowpark. This chapter caters to developers who aspire to build apps within Snowflake.
Chapter 8, Introduction to Snowpark Container Services, introduces Snowpark Container Services and discusses how to deploy applications in containers within Snowflake. This chapter caters to developers building container applications in Snowflake.
