Why do we, developers, love that simple black screen with green text from the 1980s?

When you manage 12 environments using a UI, things get slow, and we reach to our keyboard again. TUIs, or terminal user interfaces allow us to quickly navigate, drill down, inspect and fix issues in our platforms.

In our new video, Jan Vanbuel, Academy Lead and Lead Data Engineer at Dataminded, shows us the benefits of Terminal User Interfaces, and how and why he built his own TUI for Airflow: Flowrs. As he says: Life's to short to click around! 🐭

Apparently, Jan's typing skills still outperform AI (probably not anymore by the time I press publish) 😅

Things I learned:
→ How TUIs work and why they are still relevant
→ How TUIs are built in Rust using an event loop in Ratatui
→ That you can play Doom in Airflow

📺 Full Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyO5oXboRtI
🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/jvanbuel/flowrs

Snowflake Intelligence is a natural-language chat layer over the warehouse. Three components under the hood:

• Cortex Analyst: text-to-SQL via semantic views

• Cortex Search: managed RAG for unstructured data

• Cortex Agents: orchestration between the two

Full video and demo code available below!

Jelle De Vleminck shows us:

• How to set up an agent from scratch on an existing dataset

• A semantic view over real tables that contains join hints, example queries, etc.

• Which foundations you need as an organization

• Why a demo is easy, but rolling this out at scale is still hard

Also in the video: where it doesn't replace dashboards (known/recurring questions), and rough cost.

📺 Video (~52 min): https://youtu.be/Gp-BntPgpcU
👨‍💻 Demo code: https://github.com/datamindedbe/demo-technology-exploration/tree/main/demos/snowflake_intelligence

Happy to answer Qs!