Tag: dbt

Why Snowflake is Slow for Transformations and My 4 Insights from dbt Coalesce 2023

When it comes to Business Intelligence (BI), Snowflake is often lauded for its speed and ‘set-it-and-forget-it’ simplicity. However, while attending dbt Coalesce in San Diego, I discovered a different narrative among Analytics Engineers. They were saying “Snowflake is slow to build...

Using DBT for building a Medallion Lakehouse architecture (Azure Databricks + Delta + DBT)

There’s a lot of fuzz going around the data build tool (DBT). It gains a lot of traction from the data community. I’ve seen several customers and projects, where DBT is already chosen as the tool to be used. But what it is? Where can you position DBT in your data landscape? What does it ...