Categories - engineering
2026
Tuition I Paid on This Pipeline
May 15 · 4 min
Four Tests Worth Adding to Every dbt schema.yml — and the Real Bugs They Catch
May 15 · 3 min
Unit-Testing Airflow DAGs Without Starting a Scheduler
May 14 · 3 min
Managing "Semi-Static" Reference Tables with dbt Seeds
May 14 · 2 min
dbt's staging → dim/fact → mart Layering: What Problem Does It Actually Solve?
May 14 · 3 min
Partition + Cluster Without the Hand-Waving: A Worked Example on Taxi Data
May 14 · 3 min
External Table + CTAS vs. LoadJob: A Two-Step Path to Land Parquet in BigQuery
May 13 · 2 min
Manual Trigger + params: Treating Airflow as a Programmable Batch CLI
May 13 · 2 min
Airflow DAG Details That Look Pointless — Until They Save the Run
May 13 · 3 min
GCS Lifecycle Rules: Two Mindsets — Delete vs. Demote
May 13 · 2 min