Lately I’m not exactly enjoying my job. Snowflake steep curve from a data engineer perspective is really hard. Yesterday my boss asked me to test the Snowflake integrated MCP from Cursor. He’d been looking into Snowflake OAuth access, so I went to check the resources. Once again—as of January 27th, 2026—the Terraform resource for this still doesn’t exist (though the data source does, for some reason). For connecting to snowflake you need to define a security integration. Read more

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