A guide series on building your organization's first dbt project, tailored for data teams in government, academia, and nonprofits.
Explores moving from passive BI dashboards to closed-loop decision agents that observe, reason, validate, and act on data within a lakehouse architecture.
Explores semantic layers in data platforms, their role in ensuring metric trustworthiness, and their critical importance for AI agent accuracy.
How to wire AI agents and webhooks around a small startup's ops using Discord for real-time monitoring and team collaboration.
A curated list of interesting tech links for April 2026, covering data engineering, analytics, and AI integration.
Guide on connecting MySQL to Dremio Cloud for federated analytics, eliminating ETL pipelines and improving query performance.
Guide on connecting Microsoft SQL Server to Dremio Cloud for federated analytics, avoiding ETL and reducing license costs.
Guide on connecting SAP HANA to Dremio Cloud for federated analytics, enabling queries across SAP and non-SAP data sources without data movement.
Guide on connecting Vertica analytics database to Dremio Cloud for data federation, cost reduction, and modern analytics workflows.
Explains why transactional data models are inefficient for analytics and how to design denormalized, query-optimized models for better performance.
Seven common data modeling mistakes that cause reporting errors and slow analytics, with practical solutions to avoid them.
A developer reflects on 20 years of blogging about tech topics like Columnstore Indexes, Vector Indexes, AI, and Product Management.
A developer reflects on the first year of their tech-focused newsletter, sharing growth stats, key lessons learned, and strategies for consistent content creation.
Explores implementing a data mesh architecture using dbt, outlining how dbt Mesh projects can align with data mesh principles for large-scale organizations.
Demonstrates a 6x speedup for analytics queries using EDB Postgres Distributed's new analytics engine compared to the standard Postgres engine.
Discusses the risks of running analytics on operational databases and offers solutions to separate workloads.
Exploration of DuckDB and DuckLake as lightweight analytics tools, comparing them to traditional data lake architectures.
A developer built stats.store, a free, open-source, privacy-first analytics backend for Sparkle-based Mac apps, avoiding invasive tracking.
A tool for calculating SaaS churn rate, revenue leakage, and annual loss, with suggestions for improving customer retention.
A data-driven analysis of the AWS News Feed's performance and user engagement during AWS re:Invent 2024, highlighting traffic, features, and release volume.
