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A practical data platform audit checklist for reviewing Airflow reliability, Snowflake costs, dbt controls, access and operational ownership.
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A practical comparison of Postgres, DuckDB, MotherDuck and cloud warehouses based on workload shape, concurrency, governance and cost.
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Why we built dbt-doctor, an offline static analysis tool that turns recurring dbt project issues into clear checks and a practical health score.
Joachim Hodana
Founder and Principal Data Engineer @ Northgrain Data
Most companies think a data platform is for enterprises with terabytes of data and dedicated data teams. It is not.
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Northgrain Data has joined the dbt Labs Partner Program, formalising our focus on production-ready dbt implementations, migrations and analytics engineering.
Joachim Hodana
Founder and Principal Data Engineer @ Northgrain Data
What Hawk-Eye's tennis tracking data shows about schema evolution, streaming pipelines and keeping years of history queryable.
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