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dbt Labs signs definitive agreement to acquire Transform

dbt Labs has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Transform, the original innovators behind the semantic layer in the modern data stack.  Transform’s core technology, MetricFlow, is best-in-breed when it comes to defining metrics and compiling those definitions into performant SQL. This technology—the creation of the “query plan” and then generating high-quality SQL from it—is...

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How-To

Introducing 2 NEW dbt Learn advanced courses to help you prepare for the dbt Certification Exam

dbt Labs has added two more courses to its library of free resources for the emerging analytics engineer. Those new to dbt will find everything they need to get started (and badged!) in our dbt Learn Fundamentals course, while seasoned users can now go deeper on topics like advanced testing and deployments before sitting for the dbt Certification Exam.

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Opinion

Coalesce 2022 Replay Tracks: Building the Business Case

Current economic uncertainty makes navigating new data team investments a little tricky. Is now the right time to consider new tooling and frameworks? Is doing more with less a solution or recipe for burnout? What data projects most clearly map to near-term business gain? If you’re looking for the Coalesce talks that attempt to answer these questions, this is the replay track for you.

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dbt Live: Expert Series

Extending dbt's Reach

Doug Guthrie, Solutions Architect at dbt Labs, demonstrated how to set up Github Actions to enforce SQL, documentation, and test standards, auto generate exposures, how to push dbt Cloud job run metadata to Datadog for analysis and more in this dbt Live: Expert Series APAC session..

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Licensing dbt: Apache 2.0, BSL, and Proprietary

The metrics layer generated a lot of buzz at Coalesce, prompting some exciting and important conversations. In short: the dbt Server that will make metrics accessible will be source available. This will provide users control, while enabling us to build a sustainable business.

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Coalesce returns for year two this December

Dec 6-10, 2021: Coalesce is back with 85 speakers, 65+ sessions, and a little razzle-dazzle. Targeting 4 time zones (EST, PST, GMT, and AEDT)—there are plenty of opportunities to join us live. Find out what’s new, what’s staying the same, and how to prepare.

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Product News

On DAGs, Hierarchies, and IDEs

With the DAG-in-the-IDE (now available to all dbt Cloud users), analytics engineers can seamlessly navigate the core structure of their dbt project with low friction and low cognitive load, making the entire development process more intuitive, pleasant, and efficient.

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Opinion

We the purple people

The data world needs more purple people — generalists who can navigate both the business context and the modern data stack. Let's put aside skillset dichotomies, and learn to feel comfortable in the space between.

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Company News

Announcing: The Foundry Program

Over the past few months, the dbt Labs’ recruiting team has partnered with leaders from our Engineering and Analytics Engineering organizations to design the Foundry Program. This program will provide a gateway for those that are new to the field or looking to make a career change.

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Company News

A Note to dbt Service Providers

Fishtown Analytics started as a consulting company that competed with other dbt service providers. We are now a venture backed software company and our business model has fundamentally changed. Our relationship with dbt service providers is now 100% partnership.

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How-To

Modeling subscription revenue

If you’re a data analyst at a SaaS company or an ecommerce business with a subscription component, it is inevitable that you will be asked to analyze metrics like churn, upgrades, and downgrades. Here's how to do this with dbt.

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Opinion

Analytics is a Trade

Over the past three months I’ve been in the lab building Fishtown Analytics. There’s a lot of the company formation process that’s been fun for me. I love checklists, and treated the opening of this business as a really big one.

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Product News

Building a Mature Analytics Workflow

Over the past year, I and the folks at RJMetrics have had the opportunity to observe, and participate in, a significant evolution of the analytics ecosystem. The center of gravity in mature analytics organizations has shifted away from proprietary, end-to-end tools towards more composable solutions.

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