Analytics Engineering with dbt & Databricks: Building a Production-Grade Data Warehouse
Level: Intermediate Data Engineering Tech Stack: dbt · Databricks · Delta Lake · SQL · Jinja · hive_metastore Source Code & Practice Files: View on GitHub The Problem: Raw Data Is Useless In my beginner pipeline project, we learned how to ingest raw CSV data and clean it with Python. But there’s a critical question that project doesn’t answer: Once the data is ingested — then what? In a real company, raw data lands in cloud storage every day. A dozen different analysts and data scientists need to query it — each writing their own transformations, often with subtle differences. One analyst filters out cancelled orders, another doesn’t. One team reports revenue in cents, another in dollars. The result is a classic problem in data teams: everyone has a different number, and nobody knows who is right. ...