Big Data Tools

Greetings from sunny Berlin! Yes, it’s still 20+ °C here – perfect conditions for sitting down on your balcony with the latest issue of your favorite Annotated! I'm Pasha Finkelshteyn, and I’ll be your guide through this month’s news. I’ll offer my impressions of recent developments in the data engi…

In the first part of this blog series, I described basic dbt® concepts such as installation, creation of views, and describing models. I could have stopped there, but indeed, there are some drawbacks to only using views to build the whole transformation layer in our database. Sometimes we don't real…

For some time now, I’ve noticed that dbt® is gaining popularity. I’ve seen more questions and more success stories, so a couple of days ago I decided to try it out. But what exactly is dbt anyway? Here is the first phrase you can find in its documentation: “dbt (data build tool) enables anal…