Ayoub EL KHAIARI·14h agoBuilding a Real-Time Data Engineering Platform: A Practical Project with Kafka, PostGIS, dbt, and…A project-based introduction to data engineering through a real-world earthquake monitoring platform.
Ka Ling Wu·1d agodbt’s New Metrics Spec: What Changed in MetricFlow and How to MigrateMeasures are gone, semantics move onto columns and type_params flattens. A side-by-side migration guide, plus the gotchas autofix misses.
InTouchBistro EngineeringbyBahare Askari·2d agoBuilding idempotent SCD type 2 dimensions with dbt and incremental loadsKeeping full dimension history in dbt: incremental SCD Type 2 loads made idempotent with deterministic surrogate keys.A response icon1A response icon1
Leo·2d agoWhen persist_docs Stops Short: Getting dbt Descriptions into Snowflake Semantic Viewsdbt’s “write once” documentation pattern works for tables and views. Semantic Views are the gap. Here’s the macro that fills it.
Mairaj Pirzada·3d agoThe scarce skill in data engineering is noticing a plausible wrong answerKnowing a tool is cheap now. What’s scarce is a process that notices when an answer looks right and isn’t.
Obi ogbuagu·3d agoThe One Where the Row Counts MatchedLast week on Obi the Explorer, I told you why pausing a Fivetran connector doesn’t put any money back in your pocket, and what you inherit…A response icon1A response icon1
Iftikhar Liaquat·4d agoWhat Really Happens to Your Data When the Schema Changes in dbt (BigQuery Edition)Incremental models, on_schema_change, and the quiet ways a pipeline can lose data.A response icon1A response icon1
