Every month, organizations unknowingly burn thousands in Snowflake credits through seemingly harmless performance shortcuts and invisible operational blind spots. Our analysis of 50+ Snowflake environments reveals that 40% of compute costs stem from inefficient configurations, while redundant processes can consume up to 80% of platform credits.
In this session, we'll expose the most common credit burn patterns hiding in plain sight: the healthcare provider who cut usage 25% by optimizing ETL joins, the airline that avoided six-figure overages by catching idle clusters, and the retail company that discovered their dashboards were refreshing three times daily unnecessarily.
You'll learn to identify query patterns that silently drain budgets, implement warehouse configurations that balance performance with cost efficiency, and establish monitoring frameworks that catch credit burn before it becomes a budget crisis. Walk away with practical techniques to spot, quantify, and eliminate waste while maintaining—or improving—performance.