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How to Cut Prompt Costs by 90% with Prompt Caching in Snowflake

When building production LLM applications—whether question-answering systems over voluminous documentation, conversational agents with sprawling context windows, or batch processing pipelines—input token processing dominates both latency and compute costs. To solve…
Uli Bethke October 2, 2026
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Flexter Benefits

In today’s data-driven landscape, the speed at which you can move from raw data to actionable insight determines your competitive edge. Yet, for many enterprises, hierarchical data formats like XML…
Uli Bethke March 10, 2026
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How to Store & Load JSON in Snowflake (File Format Guide)

If you’re working with data today, your pipelines are almost certainly pumping JSON. From API payloads to IoT event streams and microservice logs, JSON is the lingua franca of modern…
Uli Bethke November 26, 2025
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How to Use the Flexter Online to Convert Your JSON to CSV and TSV

In this guide, I’ll walk you through Flexter Online: a free JSON to CSV/TSV converter that delivers professional-grade data transformation directly in your browser. Keep reading if you are looking…
Uli Bethke September 16, 2025
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How to Use the Flexter Online JSON to Snowflake Converter

Convert deeply nested JSON to a Snowflake, completely free and without writing a single line of code. Sounds too good to be true? With Flexter Online, it isn’t. In this…
Uli Bethke September 16, 2025
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Data Orchestration Deep Dive Snowflake Tasks. An Airflow replacement? 

What are Snowflake Tasks Snowflake introduced Tasks for scheduling and orchestrating data pipelines and workflows in late 2019. The first release of Tasks only offered the option to schedule SQL…
Uli Bethke May 3, 2024