Sometimes you care about how the technical magic is performed behind the curtain. The ‘two french dudes’ and their friends have generously shared their notes with us. Snowflake Paper 2016 http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~yxy/cs839-s20/papers/snowflake.pdf Paper annotations by Nat Taylor Snowtrail Paper - FiCloud 2023 Smart Query Sampling By Jerry Tang & et al (2023). FoundationDB Paper 2021 https://www.foundationdb.org/files/fdb-paper.pdf Carnegie Mellon Advanced Database Systems 15-721 - 2018 - Ashish Motivala https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2018/slides/25-snowflake.pdf Carnegie Mellon Quarantine Database Tech Talks 2020 - Query Optimization - Jiaqi Yan https://db.

Recently, a random chain of events pushed me to develop a small degree of expertise with Snowflake Kafka Connect sink plugin. While this open-source project has some configuration documentation, and a README, it was not obvious to me how to initiate a build or get one of the tests up and running. After a bit of trial and error, I wrote down the step-by-step instructions below in case I need to do it again later.