January 14, 2026

Snowflake questionable choices

I switched jobs all over again. I’m working in a data company called Shalion, where we provide insights about retail products online. If you’re brave enough to handle Snowflake’s quirks, we’re hiring… I’m working on revamping our permission grant system from permifrost to a terraform managed approach. We also decided to embrace a 2 layer permission grant, using Access Roles (AR) and Functional Roles (FR). The former has access to the resources with the typical permissions (SELECT, USAGE, CREATE)…, while the latter is the one that we assign to people and just groups access roles. Read more

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