# The foundations of Canva's continuous data platform with Snowpipe Streaming

DevFeed: [The foundations of Canva's continuous data platform with Snowpipe Streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-foundations-of-canva-s-continuous-data-platform-with-snowpipe-streaming-37934.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/snowpipe-streaming/>)

Author: Jack Caperon

Published: 2025-01-06T00:00:01Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Canva Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/canva-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming.md>), [product analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/product-analytics.md>), [data-platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-platforms.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [continuous](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/continuous.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-platform.md>), [partitioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/partitioning.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [snowflake](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/snowflake.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>)

## AI overview

Canva describes how it is building a continuous data platform with Snowpipe Streaming to support product analytics as its user base, workforce, and data volume grow. The article discusses schema management, streaming changes, cost reduction, and the limitations of its previous AWS Data Firehose-based approach.

## Source excerpt

Leveraging Snowpipe Streaming to build a continuous data platform.