Chad Isenberg

Hello friends! | Chad Isenberg Hello friends! I'm excited to share that I'll be speaking at this year's Coalesce (hosted by dbt Labs) on the work I and my colleagues have been doing to bring dbt to dozens of teams and hundreds of ...

Hey friends. Going to do some social media inception to announce that I'm speaking at Coalesce this year. Hope to see you there!

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Your Data Quality Checks Are Worth Less (Than You Think) How to deliver outsized value on your data quality program

Hey data friends. I wrote a post on data quality and some quick, low-lift wins you can make. Let me know what you think!

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Did you find that experience true across centralized and distributed teams? I can see how functional teams behave like mini orgs, but why do you need a bunch of generalists on a centralized team?

This is a function of org size, right? Big orgs can afford specialists. Small orgs need generalists. The game changer with AE is that analysts were given an incentive to get more technical but keep their business chops. No need to run from the business to have a competitive salary to SWE DEs.

I've used dbt with other engines (BQ, Snowflake), and the new unit testing feature is pretty solid. I think SQLMesh is better here (CTE-level testing + local execution on DuckDB).