Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: The Rise of the Analytics Pretendgineer
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-analytics-pretendgineer
- Finished date:: 2024-06-01
Highlights
dbt is functions without a framework. There are official best practices, but they’re more suggestions than guardrails—and nobody wants to read the manual anyway. As a dbt project grows, the only thing keeping us from turning it into a spidering web of entangled models and duplicative logic is our own discipline and design sense. Which takes skills many of us never learned, because we never needed to.4 (View Highlight)
That seems like Snowflake’s approach here: In exchange for money and the Snowflake sales team selling Hex and Sigma, the two companies will prioritize building a Snowflake Native App over a Databricks Lakehouse App, or integrate more directly with Snowpark Container Services, or won’t build anything that might dramatically lower how much a customer uses Snowflake. (View Highlight)