Practical writing on the work we do every day — ingestion with Airbyte, lakehouse design on DuckLake and object storage, dbt and DuckDB modeling, Dagster orchestration, and the data-quality practices that keep it all trustworthy.
Raw data is not the same as data you can trust. Here is what analytics-ready means in concrete terms — raw, staging, and marts layers, tests and freshness — and why modeling is the difference between numbers and guesses.
Read moreA walk through the open-source stack QuackyData designs, builds, and operates — Airbyte, DuckLake, DuckDB, dbt, and Dagster — and why this specific combination runs in your own cloud without per-seat warehouse bills.
Read moreThree honest paths to a working data pipeline — hire a data engineer, buy an all-in-one SaaS, or run a managed stack on open tools. Here are the real trade-offs and who each one fits.
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