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Escaping the Attention Black Hole

Mar 24 · 3 min read · Everyone talks about attention deficit. Not enough of it, can't hold it, phone keeps stealing it. That's not my worst problem. My problem is the opposite. In engineering, the silent killer isn't the i

Easy Time‑Travel for your Data Warehouse with dbt snapshots

Jan 31 · 10 min read · Why your "Sales by Region" keeps lying to you If a "simple" KPI like Sales by Region keeps changing every time someone moves house or changes team, that's not your dashboard being flaky. That's your data model telling you it only remembers the latest...

Dad, what's an event stream??

Mar 21, 2024 · 4 min read · Once upon a time, I had to explain change data capture to my son a client. Here's the gist of how that went: Change data capture (CDC) is basically reading the event stream of everything that has happened on a database. Any update, insert, delete (a...

Modern Data Modeling: Start with the End?

Feb 7, 2024 · 13 min read · Introducing: dbt So what's this dbt everyone's fussing about?? At its core, dbt (data build tool) is a "modern" data modeling framework using (Jinja) templated SQL. It comes with a CLI tool that allows to easily materialize your models as tables or v...

A Startup CTO’s Guide to the Modern Data Stack

Dec 5, 2021 · 6 min read · Plugging your first BI tool on your first source of data (your production backend’s database) is already a step in the right direction. Well done! Chances are you’ve tried both Metabase and Redash. Both being lightweight and open source alternatives ...