Some Thoughts About dbt for Data Engineering

Over the last week I have experimented with dbt (data built tool), a cmdline tool created by Fishtown-analytics. I’m hardly the first to write or talk about it (see all the references at the bottom of this piece). But I just want to record my thoughts at this point in time. What is it Imagine the following situation: you have a data warehouse where all your data lives. You as a data engineer support tens to hundreds of analysts who build dashboards and reports on top of that source data. [Read More]