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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.
SQL & Data Modeling
How to organize a dbt project so new team members can find what they need in seconds, not hours. A layer-by-layer breakdown with naming conventions you can copy today.
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Pipelines & Orchestration
Task granularity, sensor timeouts, and idempotency rules that stop a 10-task DAG from turning into an unmaintainable 200-task mess a year later.
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Data Quality & Testing
You don't need a full data observability platform to catch most data quality issues. Four test types, applied consistently, catch the vast majority of real incidents.
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