Let's walk through an example of how to use some awesome new Snowflake Trail observability capabilities, which make developing, debugging, and monitoring SPCS applications a breeze

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As part of Snowpark Container Services (SPCS), Snowflake offers a Jobs concept, which is well-suited for some important workloads in AI/ML and Data Engineering. By using the optional asynchronous Job processing support, users can save time and reduce cost with long-running workloads.

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I'm not that amazing of a public speaker, and the reason I know that is because I've been lucky enough to take some speaker training and be coached by some really excellent folks. Here are some practical tips you can start incorporating the next time you are up in front of a crowd, whether it's three people at the office, or a crowd of hundreds at a conference talk.

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I was recently going through some old boxes and ran across this... 8 years of Microsoft speaker badges

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Here are the slides, demos, and video from yesterday’s Oredev talk on building offline-enabled mobile apps.

The demos can be downloaded from here. Just running the sample gets you in the “online” state. Then you can change the default start activity (see the manifest file) to switch to the “offline” state, which enables you to try out conflict resolution and push to sync. 

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Thanks all for attending my talk in Barcelona. Sharing out the video, slides, and demo here.

Here are the links to my demos:

1. Getting started - just try the quickstart project in the Azure portal
2. Offline - based on the sample attached to this tutorial
3. Auth - download sample here
4. New Relic - just provision from the Azure store and instrument your own app with the NuGet packages shown in the demo.

Glad to answer any questions!

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