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Finish Slime - #18
Iceberg, Data Quality, dbt, databricks, Kestra, People Analytics

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Kestra is a new orchestrator taking on Apache Airflow. In this article, Dario provides a fundamental hands-on introduction starting with pulling the docker-compose file into the creation of the first YAML-based flow, over to Python flows, and more.
Dario Radečić | Jun 24 2023
speaking of orchestrators…
People Analytics is about having numbers taken from the HR department to improve the processes inside a company.
Rashi Desai | Jul 7 2023
The team behind Razorpay walks through their process of reducing the data platform cost by a significant amount. Their platform is built with Looker and Kafka on top of AWS S3.
Aakash Mandlik | Jun 21 2023
You don’t yet know how databricks works? It’s hard to know from the outside. This is a nice and simple introduction to the basics of parts of this vast platform from the perspective of data pipelines.
Hugo Lu | Jul 17 2023
Taylor provides an excellent framework on how to design new dbt models through a discovery phase, mapping out the final table, prototyping, and only then deploying anything.
Taylor Brownlow | Jul 10 2023
Data quality apparently sucks across the board for many companies, and it is deteriorating.
Michael Segner | Jul 24 2023
Table formats are one of the significant advances in the last couple of years, with Apache Iceberg being the pioneer. This article discusses how a table format fits into today's data architectures.
Ryan Blue | Jul 6 2023