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Staging is a ✨new✨ quarterly event that brings dbt users (that’s you!) into the product development lifecycle (where I spend my days 😅).I’m working on three years into my journey as a dbt user, and six months...

I recently gave a talk with this title at Sisu’s Future Data conference, and since I think in prose and not Powerpoint, I had to write the blog post before I could put the slides together. It’s taken me a bit to put...

Our goal at Fishtown is to provide analysts and analytics engineers with mature, reliable tooling to do their highest-leverage work. To that end, we’re excited to announce brand-new support for the dbt-spark plugin in...

Only recently, I had the pleasure of writing a blog post wherein I announced our Series A. It was a big moment for us, the moment we got to join the “big kids table,” the moment Fishtown Analytics evolved from a...

A couple of weeks ago, I was participating in a Slack discussion about open source tools in Locally Optimistic when someone said that teaching their team members the command line was “too hard.” They weren’t...

In case you haven’t heard, we’re tinkering on something special for December–Coalesce’s inaugural run (check out the landing page for more). Recently, we made a call for speakers eager to pitch a 10 to 25 minute...

Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen something exciting happen: two amazing companies in the modern data stack have launched major integrations with dbt. Fivetran is running dbt jobs directly inside the Fivetran...

You just started your dream job – you are the first data scientist at a meal kit startup. The engineers connected all the data sources to the warehouse, the pipeline runs twice a day, and there's so much fun work to...

I have the distinct privilege of curating a newsletter called the Data Science Roundup, and in a recent issue I linked to a post called Dashboards are Dead. Here’s what I had to say about it:There is a lot a lot to...

I created my dbt Slack account in January 2017 — at the time, this meant joining a community of just 58 other data practitioners. The dbt community of 2017 was genuinely special to me — community members generously...

Every year on Fishtown Analytics’ birthday (July 1), I take a moment to reflect back on the past 12 months. After one year in business, I was relieved that Fishtown Analytics was still alive and showing early signs of...

It’s Monday morning. You get the dreaded Slack message, “This dashboard seems to be broken.” Well, there go all your plans for the day. You know you’ll be spending the next few hours trying to figure out what...

My fellow dbt community members,It’s my very great pleasure to share that Fishtown Analytics has raised $12.9M to invest in the growth of dbt. The round closed earlier this month and was led by Andreessen Horowitz....

Update: Coalesce was cancelled due to COVID-19, but is back on as an online event 🎉 It will be taking place December 7-11, 2020. More info here: www.getdbt.com/coalesceOn February 27th we hosted our largest Meetups...

Four years ago this week, we started building dbt. Like most new things, it was released into the world without too much fanfare or ovation. Since then, nearly 5,000 distinct dbt projects have been created, and the...

Marketing attribution is how you understand the marketing channels and tactics that are driving new customers to your business. It’s critical information that every single marketing team in the world wants, and at...

If you’re a data analyst at a SaaS company or an ecommerce business with a subscription component, it is inevitable that you will be asked to analyze metrics like churn, upgrades, and downgrades. These data points...

Today I’m incredibly excited to announce the launch of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for dbt. With the IDE, you can build, run, test, and version control dbt projects from your browser. There’s no...

Today we released the dbt Integrated Developer Environment (IDE) into general availability in dbt Cloud. With the IDE, you can build, run, test, and version control dbt projects from your browser. There’s no wrestling...

Test-driven development has been popular on software engineering teams for so long that it’s hard to imagine a mature software codebase without thorough automated testing. There are just too many moving pieces in even...

The data team is a brand new thing: it’s not “IT”, it’s not finance, it’s not any of the typical business functions within an operating business. So...who does it report to? How does it interact with the rest...