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KingstonKingston Modernizes Event Streams with Snowflake
Kingston, an information technology organization in the United States, uses Snowflake Data Cloud from Snowflake to support real-time operations for platform engineers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because event streams has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in real-time operations sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Capability | New joiners can see how real-time operations actually runs |
Story
Kingston grew event streams faster than the local tools around it. From the United States, information technology teams still had to serve customers and internal partners who expected a straight answer. Platform engineers were the ones stitching the picture together by hand.
Rolling out Snowflake Data Cloud put real-time operations on Snowflake. Snowflake is a cloud data platform that separates storage and compute so organizations can share, analyze, and govern data across clouds. Kingston keeps the product in the path where work already happens, so platform engineers do not context-switch into a graveyard system used only for audits.
The visible result is steadier real-time operations. Event streams is easier to inspect, and adjacent groups can join platform engineers without a guided tour of someone's desktop.
