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Coffee Break
A series of LinkedIn posts sharing reading recommendations.
Content example.
The Tip of the Iceberg: An Introduction to Open Table Formats. Data lakes are becoming a key part of the modern data stack. With cloud storage now cheap and scalable, businesses can keep all kinds of data in one place — then pull out what they need for analytics, machine learning or AI.
Some links for your learning:
In this slightly old blog, Sara cooks up a lasagna metaphor for layering your production jobs. Like a proper Ragù, the trick is to build from a solid base. One thing to note is that the `dbt build` command now supersedes the old `dbt run, dbt test` double.
Modelling and cleaning data with dbt
In a much more recent blog, Kyle and Damaris discuss how dbt Labs use the dbt Cloud to clean and serve their training data. This blog not only elucidates some of the features of dbt Cloud but also gives some great advice on modelling and cleaning data.
Demystify the back-end of arguably Alteryx’s most useful tool
