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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
  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
  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?
  4. …https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte https://airbyte.com/connectors https://www.singer.io/#taps https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core
  5. …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
  6. …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
  7. …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
  8. …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
  9. 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
  10. …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
  11. …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)
  12. …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
  13. …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
  14. …(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](…