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dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.

21 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 7 stories, 14 comments · first 2019-04-20 · latest 2026-07-12

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  1. …surface area -- that you don't have a good feel for -- to handle orchestration feels risky. --- [1] https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core [2] https://github.com/pdthq/pdt
    comment by christoff12 · 2026-07-12 · in Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration
  2. …options (e.g. write to a partitioned parquet instead of a table). 0 - SQL transformation tool ( https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core ) 1 - https://github.com/definite-app/crabwalk
    comment by mritchie712 · 2025-03-09 · in I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
  3. Just noticed 404s on dbt core - was this announced recently? https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core
    comment by devstein · 2024-12-04 · in Dbt no longer open source?
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    Dbt no longer open source?
    story by devstein · 2024-12-04 · 3 comments
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    Dbt-Core: Transform Your Data with Software Engineering Best Practices
    story by BlitzInnovator · 2024-10-03 · 0 comments
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    dbt
    story by tosh · 2024-02-18 · 0 comments
  7. …https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte https://airbyte.com/connectors https://www.singer.io/#taps https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core
    comment by tomnipotent · 2024-02-02 · in We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres
  8. …the interaction wasn't as straightforward as we had hoped. There is an open PR in the dbt repo: https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/5982#issuecomment-... I have some ideas about future directions in this space where I believe PRQL…
    comment by snthpy · 2023-09-16 · in Relational is more than SQL
  9. …rather than build. For startups and smaller companies, have you looked at something like `dbt` ( https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core ) ? I understand the desire to write some code, but often times there are already existing solutions for…
    comment by smif · 2023-09-06 · in How to level up beyond ETLs
  10. …understand that SQL is definitely testable, particularly if managed by environments such as DBT ( https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core ). Those who arrived here with preference to python will note that dbt is largely implemented in python,…
    comment by waffletower · 2023-08-14 · in Python: Just Write SQL
  11. …with monitoring and visibility. https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/supported-data-platforms -- core: https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core - Python, Apache 2 license cloud: https://www.getdbt.com/pricing/
    comment by password4321 · 2022-12-28 · in SQL + M4 = Composable SQL
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    Ask HN: It's time for a `.config` path in repos
    story by maximilianroos · 2022-12-11 · 5 comments
  13. yeah, this issue has been open for years. We need them for Clickhouse for our product. https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/1162
    comment by mritchie712 · 2022-07-14 · in PostgreSQL views and materialized views and how they influenced TimescaleDB
  14. …opened a serious conversation about supporting Python models. I'm sure they'd value your viewpoint! https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/discussions/5261
    comment by igrayson · 2022-05-23 · in Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale
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    Dbt Python Models
    story by kdamica · 2022-05-17 · 0 comments
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    Let’s Talk about Dbt
    story by pietroppeter · 2022-05-16 · 1 comment
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    Data build tool (dbt) – transform large data same as building applications
    story by dragonsh · 2020-10-02 · 0 comments
  18. …dbt (data build tool) for a modular approach to sql; postgres, snowflake, bigquery or redshift. https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt
    comment by chishaku · 2020-06-18 · in Modularizing SQL? (2007)
  19. …as loops, with Jinja. It is primarily meant for OLAP and ELT, but could be used for some OLTP too. https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt
    comment by rpedela · 2020-05-02 · in Medium-hard SQL interview questions
  20. …alternative based on Jsonnet ( https://jsonnet.org/ ) and the great data pipeline tool DBT. ( https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt ). Here is how it looks like: https://github.com/rakam-io/segment-recipe/blob/master/event...
    comment by buremba · 2019-06-06 · in Google to Acquire Looker
  21. …(alternatively you could denormalise after the load ELT-style using materialised views or [dbt]( https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt) ) You'll still need a tool to orchestrate it all. I'm excited about trying [pachyderm](…
    comment by timwis · 2019-04-20 · in Ask HN: How do I improve our data infrastructure?