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Published inJun 2023
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781803246284
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Roberto Zagni
Roberto Zagni
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Roberto Zagni

Roberto Zagni is a senior leader with extensive hands-on experience in data architecture, software development and agile methodologies. Roberto is an Electronic Engineer by training with a special interest in bringing software engineering best practices to cloud data platforms and growing great teams that enjoy what they do. He has been helping companies to better use their data, and now to transition to cloud based Data Automation with an agile mindset and proper SW engineering tools and processes, aka DataOps. Roberto also coaches data teams hands-on about practical data architecture and the use of patterns, testing, version control and agile collaboration. Since 2019 his go to tools are dbt, dbt Cloud and Snowflake or BigQuery.
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Comparing dbt Core and dbt Cloud workflows

There are two dbt versions that you can decide to use:

  • dbt Core: This is open source software created by dbt Labs, developed in Python, that you can freely download and use locally from the command line on many operating systems, such as Windows, Mac, and Linux. It provides all the core functionalities of dbt and can also be used for commercial projects.
  • dbt Cloud: This is a commercial software created by dbt Labs that offers a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) experience that includes all the functionalities from dbt Core wrapped in a web interface that makes it easier to use the dbt Core functionalities, adding many features that are useful when running a real-life data project.

The dbt Core open source product offers all the features to run a full dbt project, with no differences nor limitations in the core functionalities with respect to the dbt Cloud product, to the point that you can execute the same project under any of...

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Data Engineering with dbt
Published in: Jun 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803246284

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Roberto Zagni

Roberto Zagni is a senior leader with extensive hands-on experience in data architecture, software development and agile methodologies. Roberto is an Electronic Engineer by training with a special interest in bringing software engineering best practices to cloud data platforms and growing great teams that enjoy what they do. He has been helping companies to better use their data, and now to transition to cloud based Data Automation with an agile mindset and proper SW engineering tools and processes, aka DataOps. Roberto also coaches data teams hands-on about practical data architecture and the use of patterns, testing, version control and agile collaboration. Since 2019 his go to tools are dbt, dbt Cloud and Snowflake or BigQuery.
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