No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative. It gets the people going! Chazz Michael Michaels Context: This is the first of a series of posts looking at Analytics Engineering as I’ve lived and breathed it since 2014, largely in the SaaS industry. This is not meant to provide universal truths, but rather give … Continue reading Defining Analytics Engineering| DataDuel.co
use these simple snippets to run 'uv pip install' inside your dev containers and github actions. for dev containers, use the root user.| DataDuel.co
This post was co-written by Alex Noonan, Dani Mermelstein & Jacob Matson. Introduction In light of the recent price increases observed in products like dbt Cloud, coupled with the general pressure to maintain cost efficiency, we wanted to build a project template for running dbt in a production environment using GitHub Actions & AWS S3. … Continue reading Simple dbt runner| DataDuel.co
quick note: the justification for doing this is worth like a 17 page manifesto. I’m focusing on the how, and maybe I’ll eventually write the manifesto. General Approach This specific problem is loading Point-of-Sale data for a vertical specific system into a database for analysis on a daily basis, but could be generalized to most … Continue reading The ‘e’ in Hex is for ELT| DataDuel.co
I didn’t really set out to learn Docker when I started the MDS-in-a-box project, but as it turns out, Docker is quite a good fit. Part of this is because I desired to run the project in a Github Action, which is a very similar paradigm, and also because I have the notion (TBD) of … Continue reading| DataDuel.co