PinnedFelipe Hoffa·Feb 5, 2025After BigQuery and Snowflake: What comes next? (Felipe’s version)I’m Felipe Hoffa — a Developer Advocate who became a key player in the meteoric rise of BigQuery and Snowflake. Now on a break, I reflect…A response icon10A response icon10
InGeotab InnovatorsbyFelipe Hoffa·6d agoGCP Next ’26: A knowledge graph of 5 million words of videos and slidesHow 1,146 sessions, 444 slide decks, and 323 video transcripts became 8,285 nodes and 24,421 edges of structured knowledge. The challenge…
Felipe Hoffa·Apr 6Is MCP dead? 2025 vs 2026 at GCP NextComparing the Google Cloud Next session catalogs — 2025 vs 2026: MCP: 1 → 63 sessions, A2A / agent-to-agent: 0 → 16, “Protocol”: 0 → 50…
Felipe Hoffa·Dec 5, 2025Can AI Understand Fleet Data? Claude Puts Geotab Ace to the Test (MCP Demo)We gave Claude 3.5 Sonnet complete autonomy to test Geotab Ace — designing tests, running them, and evaluating the results on its own.
Felipe Hoffa·Sep 16, 2025BigQuery vs Snowflake vs Databricks: Which subreddit community beats?Instead of comparing data platforms, I want to know which one has the healthiest community heartbeat on Reddit: BigQuery, Snowflake, or…
Felipe Hoffa·Jul 12, 2024Surviving a Keynote Disaster: How We Turned Panic into a WinWhat would you do if you’re on stage delivering a keynote demo in front of thousands of people — and suddenly your computer dies? This is…A response icon1A response icon1
Felipe Hoffa·May 29, 2024Uncovering the new Snowflake UDAFs with Apache DataSketchesSnowflake now supports creating your own user-defined aggregate functions (UDAFs) in Python. Let’s discover them by implementing Apache…
Felipe Hoffa·Jan 17, 2024Hey Snowflake, send me a fancy HTML emailSnowflake can now send HTML email notifications, so it’s time to explore how to make the most out of this new ability — including sending…A response icon5A response icon5
Felipe Hoffa·Jan 10, 2024Testing the Snowflake Query Acceleration Service with a 17 TB tableSnowflake has an easy way to make queries faster while using the smallest warehouse: The Query Acceleration Service has been ready for…
Felipe Hoffa·Sep 20, 2023Discover the new Snowpark ML Toolkit + dbt Python modelsLet’s do some feature engineering, training, and inference with Snowpark ML and the dbt Python models. First with with 50k rows and then…A response icon2A response icon2
