Data Products and Sharing at Scale

At scale, your warehouse stops being a pile of tables and becomes a portfolio of products. Each product has a clear purpose, a stable interface, a small set of promises (freshness, availability, schema), and an owning team that operates it. Snowflake makes this practical because the “API surface” is just SQL: secure views, tags, policies, and a handful of small operational tables (contracts, release notes, incidents). You don’t copy data to package it; you name and govern it so others can adopt it without ceremony. The rest is muscle memory—version, document, observe, and deprecate like software.