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How we shaved 90 minutes off our longest running model

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When running a job that has over 1,700 models, how do you know what a “good” runtime is? Here at dbt Labs, we used the Model Timing tab in our internal analytics dbt project to help us identify inefficiencies in our incremental dbt Cloud job that eventually led to major financial savings, and a path forward for periodic improvement checks.

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Understanding the components of the dbt Semantic Layer

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TLDR: The Semantic Layer is made up of a combination of open-source and SaaS offerings and is going to change how your team defines and consumes metrics. At last year's Coalesce, Drew showed us the future 1 - a vision of what metrics in dbt could look like. How do I use it? What is the dbt Semantic Layer? ​