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Operational data lineage with dbt

Datakin

dbt is an amazing way to transform data within a data warehouse. If you use Datakin to observe your dbt models as they run, you can always know exactly where your datasets came from and how they were created. This is a quick tutorial that can show you how to observe dbt pipelines with Datakin. dbt/profiles.yml.

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Introducing the dbt Cloud API Postman Collection: a tool to help you scale your account management

dbt Developer Hub

❓ Who is this for: This is for advanced users of dbt Cloud that are interested in expanding their knowledge of the dbt API via an interactive Postman Collection. We only suggest diving into this once you have a strong knowledge of dbt + dbt Cloud. check out the collection documentation to learn how to use it.

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Enforcing rules at scale with pre-commit-dbt

dbt Developer Hub

At dbt Labs, we have best practices we like to follow for the development of dbt projects. That question becomes difficult to answer in large dbt projects. When dbt projects have hundreds of models, it's hard to know which models do not have any tests defined and aren't enforcing your conventions.

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How I Study Open Source Community Growth with dbt

dbt Developer Hub

Most organizations spend at least some of their time contributing to an open source project. In many organizations it's important to measure the results of ongoing investment in open source projects, especially when dealing with stakeholders who favor quantitative proof. But there are tactical uses for this data as well.

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October 2021 dbt Update: Metrics and Hat Tricks ?

dbt Developer Hub

dbt will support metric definitions ? With this feature, you'll be able to centrally define rules for aggregating metrics (think, "active users" or "MRR") in version controlled, tested, documented dbt project code. Jeremy (dbt PM) will share more about the metrics layer in his v1.0 dbt build is here! ?

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Your Essential dbt Project Checklist

dbt Developer Hub

If you’ve been using dbt for over a year, your project is out-of-date. Over the last year, I and others on the Fishtown Analytics (now dbt Labs!) team have conducted seven audits for clients who have been using dbt for a minimum of 2 months. By default, dbt models are materialized as “views”.

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