When it comes to the concept of extract, load, transform, dbt puts the T in ELT. It helps you organize, cleanse, denormalize, filter, rename, and pre-aggregate the raw data in your warehouse so that it’s ready for analysis. The dbt-Bigquery package contains all of the code needed to enable dbt to work with Google BigQuery. […]
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Normally, in this space we talk about interesting solutions to challenges that we’ve encountered and other useful technical topics. This time, we’re going in a different direction. In this industry, we often hear the phrase “best-practices” to describe activities or techniques that are recommended for any number of practical reasons. What about the other stuff?
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At SADA, we follow industry standards and generate new best practices on a regular basis. Among my favorites are my tenets of Excellent Code, which we’ll discuss here today. While relatively opinionated, it is intended as a general overview for more junior developers, new to the field. I won’t be going into the code itself,
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I’ve long been an advocate of Terraform for managing cloud resources. Last year, I learned about HashiCorp Vault for managing security credentials and found myself a fan for the same reasons that I liked Terraform. The ease of use, robust documentation, and multi-cloud support were all excellent. I decided that I wanted to obtain the
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Need to deploy your Google Cloud, or GCP, network as Infrastructure-as-code (IaC)? Walk through two common scenarios deploying virtual private clouds (VPCs) as you learn how to use this simple webform with your Terraform repository for quick network deployments.
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