Right-Size a Warehouse With Evidence
Right-size a Snowflake warehouse by comparing runtime, queueing, scan evidence, and credits before changing policy.
The weekly inventory model runs for 41 minutes on a Medium warehouse. Someone wants to move it to 2X-Large permanently before checking the profile. PDCA + FinOps: plan the expected bottleneck, do one controlled sizing test, check runtime and credits, then act on evidence. The common shortcut is to apply a broad fix first, then search for evidence after the fact. That reverses the learning loop and makes cost, access, or quality debt harder to see. Plan Capture baseline runtime, queued time, bytes scanned, spill, and credits for the current Medium warehouse. A baseline prevents the team from confusing faster…
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