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dbt’s Platform Ambitions Are Rewriting the Data Stack, And Not Everyone’s Celebrating

As dbt evolves from transformation tool to all-in-one ELT platform with Semantic Models and Fusion, data teams face a critical question: is this convenience worth the ecosystem lock-in?

#data-platform#dbt#vendor-lock-in

data-transformation

dbt’s CTE Obsession: When Readability Becomes a Performance Tax

The debate over nested CTE patterns in dbt models isn’t just about style, it’s about whether modern data warehouses are silently paying for your code’s readability.

#data-transformation#dbt#sql-optimization

data-engineering

The Death of OSS dbt: Merging with Fivetran and the End of Open Source Trust?

The controversial merger between dbt Labs and Fivetran puts open source data tooling’s future in question

#data-engineering#dbt#fivetran...

data-engineering

The Fivetran-dbt “Marriage of Convenience” That’s Quietly Declaring War on Snowflake

The merger between Fivetran and dbt Labs isn’t just consolidation, it’s a strategic power play to flip the data stack hierarchy and make warehouses the commodities, not the kings.

#data-engineering#databricks#dbt...