Many data teams across Kraken are using Databricks and dbt to build their analytics lakehouses. Databricks is a powerful tool that allows you to run and query dbt models quickly with Spark. However with an increasing number of analysts, complexity of queries and growing dbt projects, costs of building these models can quickly rise. To help optimize costs we first need to understand them. So, in this post we’ll walk through one method to estimate the cost of running any dbt model in Databric...
