A rant against dbt ref

maxhalford25@gmail.com (Max Halford) — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Disclaimer

Let me be absolutely clear: I think dbt is a great tool. Although this post is a rant, the goal is to be constructive and suggest an improvement.

dbt in a nutshell

dbt is a workflow orchestrator for SQL. In other words, it’s a fancy Make for data analytics. What makes dbt special is that it is the first workflow orchestrator that is dedicated to the SQL language. It said out loud what many data teams were thinking: you can get a lot done with SQL.

I got plagiarized and Google didn't help

maxhalford25@gmail.com (Max Halford) — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

One of my most popular articles is the one on target encoding. It gets a fair amount of mentions on Kaggle discussions and I see it pop up from time to time in other contexts. It also brings me around 2500 unique monthly viewers. That’s quite a chunk of people for an unambitious blogger like me. Up to a few months ago, my article was on the first page of Google when you typed in searches such as “target encoding python” and “bayesian target encoding”. This was purely organic and it felt nice to have a relevant article, even though that’s not the main reason why I blog.

Rant on Max Halford

A rant against dbt ref

Disclaimer

dbt in a nutshell

I got plagiarized and Google didn't help