Summary

Good job!

In this chapter you have built a working data platform, with a sound architecture and clear organization, using only the basic features of dbt.

You now understand all the layers of our architecture, and you can build the appropriate models for each layer and save the changes to your data using dbt snapshots.

In the next chapter, we will learn all about incorporating dimensional data in our architecture and reinforcing everything we learned in this chapter.

Important note

Note that, in this chapter, we have been focused on giving you the basics of proper architecture and model organization in each architectural layer. To limit the page count and retain focus, we have deliberately disregarded some important activities, such as adding tests to verify the input source data and the data that we publish in the data mart. Do not assume they are not important.

We have also used some basic functionality, as we have not yet introduced the features to implement...