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A step-by-step walkthrough showing how to load data onto a Postgres database with Airflow.
Pipelines & Orchestration
This is a step-by-step walkthrough to help you build your first scheduled Airflow pipeline running on your local machine. Call a public API for USD exchange rates, reshape the data, and write to a dated file on a schedule.
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SQL & Data Modeling
BigQuery bills for bytes scanned, not rows returned. Before you touch partitioning or clustering, run this audit to find out what's actually driving your bill.
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Pipelines & Orchestration
A fictional e-commerce company, six tables, and four tools wired together — Faker, DuckDB, dbt, and Dagster. Clone it, run one command, and get a tested analytics warehouse running locally.
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