Metadata
- Author: Dan Poppy
- Full Title:: Ep 46: DBT Labs on DBT
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Data Culture, Data Culture,
- URL:: https://roundup.getdbt.com/p/ep-46-dbt-labs-on-dbt-w-daniel-le
- Finished date:: 2023-07-29
Highlights
Data is messy for everybody (even if we still try to make it good)
As our data team scaled at Zoom and it got even more complex, as the business would grow, when we tried to do the analysis ourselves in Excel, it would break because Zoom grew from a couple million to hundreds of millions of users. It ended up breaking our Excel files and some of our queries would have to change. Doing that in a repeatable, consistent way was virtually impossible. (View Highlight)