dbt is THE way to manage your SQL transformations - version control and all kinds of other tools!
September 21, 2022
dbt is THE way to manage your SQL transformations - version control and all kinds of other tools!
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with dbt
I'm now adapting ALL my data transformations in my Fivetran -> Snowflake -> visualizations data pipelines using dbt. The productivity gains + better accuracy/fewer bugs introduced are HUGE. There's definitely some upfront work to learn dbt (not hard if you're already a SQL expert AND if you have a little git or coding familiarity), but man is it worth it!
- SQL Transformation
- Data pipeline management
- SQL data warehouse management
- Slow load times of the dbt cloud environment (they're working on it via a new UI though)
- More out-of-the-box solutions for managing procedures, functions, etc would be nice to have, but honestly, it's pretty easy to figure out how to adapt dbt macros
- Easy of use
- Supports good coding principles (DRY, for example) and dev vs prod environments
- Testing of data!
- Dbt saves me an incredible amount of time building & managing data pipeline.
- I feel like dbt replaces at least 1 FTE data engineer on our team, and does it better.
I actually don't know what the alternative to dbt is. I'm sure one must exist other than more 'roll your own' options like Apache Airflow, say, bu tin terms of super easy managed/cloud data transforms, dbt really does seem to be THE tool to use. It's $50/month per dev, BUT there's a FREE version for 1 dev seat with no read-only access for anyone else, so you can always start with that and then buy yourself a seat later.
Do you think dbt delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with dbt's feature set?
Yes
Did dbt live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of dbt go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy dbt again?
Yes