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SQLMesh, dbt and Fivetran... what's next?

A Turning Point for the Data Engineering Landscape

Past years data engineering and current trends (2025 edition - Part 2)

This is part 2 of a multi-part series on current trends in data engineering and analytics in 2025.

Past years data engineering and current trends (2025 edition - Part 1)

This is the follow-up to the list I drafted early 2024 (see the original reflection piece: 2024 data engineering trend retrospective).

GROUP BY conference 2025

Tobiko data team is kicking off its rocketship 🚀

What if dbt and SQLMesh were weapons

The Data Transformation Arms Race

Backing up Slack on Iceberg with dlt & Dagster

A sweet combo that could use some polish

Leveraging SQLMesh for Domain-Driven Development Across Environments

A deep dive into supporting analytics along a DDD approach

Bucketing optimization in SQL to deal with skewed data (BigQuery example)

The 10x+ optimization that you may never tried

Past years and current data engineering trends (2024 edition)

a purely personal take inspired by my day to day work, proof of concepts and side projects

Is SQLMesh the dbt Core 2.0? A foot in the door.

dbt dominates the transformation on SQL workload but is it still going to be the king in 2024 and beyond? What does it take to move from dbt to SQLMesh?