{SOLD OUT} Operationalize cost visibility in dbt
Tuesday, September 159:30 AM PDT
*This training is currently full. You may still request this training as an add-on to your registration by joining the waitlist, but a seat is not guaranteed. We will notify you during the first week of September if a seat becomes available.
Learn a practical, repeatable approach to managing analytics costs with dbt. This course focuses on the real-world workflow teams use to control spend: understanding cost drivers, identifying hotspots, establishing team standards, and turning cost signals into an actionable optimization backlog.
After this course, you will be able to:
- Explain common cst drivers in analytics workloads (over-refreshing, inefficient transformations, poorly designed rebuild patterns)
- Apply job design and project patterns that reduce avoidable spend
- Create an operating rhythm for cost management (visibility → prioritization → optimization → measurement)Define team agreements that prevent cost regressions (standards, review checks, and ownership)
Prerequisites:
- dbt Fundamentals
What to bring:
- You must bring your own laptop to complete the hands-on exercises
- We will provide any required sandbox environments for dbt and the data platform.
Duration: 2 hours
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