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Data Engineering with dbt

You're reading from   Data Engineering with dbt A practical guide to building a cloud-based, pragmatic, and dependable data platform with SQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246284
Length 578 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Roberto Zagni Roberto Zagni
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Foundations of Data Engineering
2. Chapter 1: The Basics of SQL to Transform Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your dbt Cloud Development Environment 4. Chapter 3: Data Modeling for Data Engineering 5. Chapter 4: Analytics Engineering as the New Core of Data Engineering 6. Chapter 5: Transforming Data with dbt 7. Part 2: Agile Data Engineering with dbt
8. Chapter 6: Writing Maintainable Code 9. Chapter 7: Working with Dimensional Data 10. Chapter 8: Delivering Consistency in Your Data 11. Chapter 9: Delivering Reliability in Your Data 12. Chapter 10: Agile Development 13. Chapter 11: Team Collaboration 14. Part 3: Hands-On Best Practices for Simple, Future-Proof Data Platforms
15. Chapter 12: Deployment, Execution, and Documentation Automation 16. Chapter 13: Moving Beyond the Basics 17. Chapter 14: Enhancing Software Quality 18. Chapter 15: Patterns for Frequent Use Cases 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Agile development and collaboration

In this chapter, we will touch on probably the most important part of the development cycle, the one that contributes the most to project success and delivery time – enabling your people to be productive and eager to work on a project as a team by helping each other.

With over two decades of experience working in different countries, companies, sectors, and functions, I can say that developers love their work, and they hate doing nothing or, even worse, stupid, pointless things.

You can be assured that as long as your developers have a clear picture of what to build and small enough incremental goals to achieve, they will build your project, as this is what brings them satisfaction.

The agile development part of this chapter concentrates on making your people work on what matters most, reducing useless work as much as possible. The collaboration part ensures that they do not work isolated but are aligned, and they help and coach each...

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