dbt

includes Dbt Cloud, Dbt Core, Dbt Docs, Dbt Semantic Layer

12 statements across 7 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Sep 18, 2020 by George Fraser · said 108 times in 20 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by Matt Turck (37), Tristan Handy (27), George Fraser (5), Nick Schrock (4), DeVaris Brown (4), Julien Le Dem (3), Jordan Tigani (3), Jeremiah Lowin (3)

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Sep 18, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fraser: dbt has emerged as the standard for data warehouse transformations
“Over the last couple of years, this great tool called DBT, which is an open source community. It's also a product, and there's a company called Fishtown Analytics that's the primary sponsor of DBT, but it's really emerged as the way to orchestrate transformati…”
George Fraser Sep 18, 2020 ▶ 23:25 Fireside Chat: George Fraser (Founder & CEO, Fivetran) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Handy: dbt's philosophy empowers data analysts to think like software engineers
“Yes, that is completely true.”
Tristan Handy Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 20:25 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Handy: dbt originated as an internal tool for a consulting firm
“First time analytics, my company that is the maintainers of dbt we started as a consulting business and dbt was the tool that I wanted to be able to do this work.”
Tristan Handy Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 21:39 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Handy: dbt serves batch data workloads, not sub-100ms real-time applications
“There's a lot of data science that's done Internally where like you're doing predictive analysis that, you know, the data latency can be a day or it can be like last quarter's data is fine. And those data science workloads are often run on the exact same stack…”
Tristan Handy Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 7:30 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Handy: The dbt community reached over 8,000 members by late 2020
“We've built this community of over 8000 people today who you know, have bought into this as like the way that they want their careers to look.”
Tristan Handy Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 22:01 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Mar 15, 2021 positive
Opinion
Narayan: dbt serves as GitHub for SQL code
“I think of it as like GitHub for all of your SQL, right?”
Arjun Narayan Mar 15, 2021 ▶ 19:58 Fireside Chat: Arjun Narayan (Founder & CEO, Materialize) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Mar 15, 2021 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Narayan: Streaming will remain niche until tooling matches batch systems
“Until streaming gets to the same level of tooling, and a large part of that tooling is dbt as existing batch systems you know, it will still remain a fairly niche technology.”
Arjun Narayan Mar 15, 2021 ▶ 21:17 Fireside Chat: Arjun Narayan (Founder & CEO, Materialize) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Jun 21, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Meroxa bypasses data warehouses to transform data on every real-time event
“What we do this differently is that we act off of every single event. So every time there's a database transaction, somebody calls your API, they interact with your website that, that makes the API call that talks to the database. We can then transform that da…”
DeVaris Brown Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 6:00 Fireside Chat: DeVaris Brown (Founder & CEO, Meroxa) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Jun 28, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Handy: Data processing will be polyglot with non-SQL abstractions within five years
“We really do think that the future of data processing is polyglot, and I think that if you look in five years, you will find more robust abstractions on top of data, and even in the DBT ecosystem, than SQL.”
Tristan Handy Jun 28, 2022 ▶ 24:51 The Next Layer of the Modern Data Stack | dbt's Tristan Handy
Oct 10, 2022 bearish
Opinion
Stancil: dbt's SQL-based semantic layer is not a real semantic model
“They're moving in, like, the semantic layer tool, so basically they're saying, give us raw data, and we will tell you, like, apply semantics to it. The way that they do that now is through SQL. So, like, semantics are kind of, like, air quote semantics. It's b…”
Benn Stancil Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 22:37 Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
Oct 10, 2022 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stancil: dbt's initial ease of use may become its downfall
“Dbt is, I think, really popular because it's so easy to get up and running, but it may also eventually be, like, if it had an undoing, to me that would be the undoing, is the thing that was really easy to get up and running doesn't actually solve the real prob…”
Benn Stancil Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 24:26 Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
Feb 22, 2024 positive
Opinion
Handy: The core modern data stack architecture remains a good idea
“When people started using the term modern data stack, there was a there, like fivetran, dbt, mode, looker, et cetera. These are tools that. Were built around an idea of how data technology should work. And it was a, it was, and is a good idea.”
Tristan Handy Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 5:49 Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
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