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dbt Labs
Company blog · blog.getdbt.comdatabusiness
dbt Labs is the company blog at blog.getdbt.com, writing about data and business. Since 2020, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Of the Community, by the Community, for the Community”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link dbt Labs' blog for explanations of dbt and the modern data stack, such as overviews of what dbt is. Most mentions are in 'Who is hiring' job posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Learn more about the data analytics industry, dbt Cloud and dbt Core, as well as company news and updates.
Most-linked posts?
- /of-the-community-by-the-community-fo3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-10-01
- Of the Community, by the Community, for the Community2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-01
- The next layer of the modern data stack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-27
- What Is an Analytics Engineer? (2019)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-14
- Fishtown Analytics (DBT) Announces $12.9M Fundraise2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-22
What Hacker News says?
dbt Labs | Remote, USA | Transforming Data & Teams : https://www.getdbt.com/ We're a distributed remote team with a public commitment to open source, transparency, and creating more value than we capture. Check us out on Enterprise Tech 30: ( https://www.enterprisetech30.com/#mid-stage ) Here's a bit about us: Our open-source software, dbt, enables anyone who knows SQL to engineer, document, and test data pipelines.…
Comment linking /of-the-community-by-the-community-fo
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted Dbt Labs (formerly Fishtown Analytics) raises $150m Series C as a story · 18 points
HN discussiondbt Labs | Remote, USA | The creators of dbt - https://www.getdbt.com/dbt-labs/open-roles/ We’re a distributed remote-first team with a public commitment to open source, transparency, and creating more value than we capture. Check us out on Enterprise Tech 30: ( https://www.enterprisetech30.com/#mid-stage ) and our recent Series C announcement: https://blog.getdbt.com/of-the-community-by-the-community-fo... Open Rol…
Comment linking /of-the-community-by-the-community-for-the-community/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)”Submitted dbt Labs raises Series C at $1.5b as a story · 6 points
HN discussiondbt Labs | Remote, USA | Transforming Data & Teams : https://www.getdbt.com/ We're a distributed remote team with a public commitment to open source, transparency, and creating more value than we capture. Check us out on Enterprise Tech 30: ( https://www.enterprisetech30.com/#mid-stage ) Here's a bit about us: Our open-source software, dbt, enables anyone who knows SQL to engineer, document, and test data pipelines.…
Comment linking /of-the-community-by-the-community-for-the-community/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”Submitted Announcing the Dbt IDE as a story · 5 points
HN discussiondbt Labs | Remote, USA | Transforming Data & Teams : https://www.getdbt.com/ We're a distributed remote team with a public commitment to open source, transparency, and creating more value than we capture. Check us out on Enterprise Tech 30: ( https://www.enterprisetech30.com/#mid-stage ) Here's a bit about us: Our open-source software, dbt, enables anyone who knows SQL to engineer, document, and test data pipelines.…
Comment linking /of-the-community-by-the-community-fo
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)”Submitted What, exactly, is dbt? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhat's fascinating to me as that it's happening at the same time as the "X as code" movement. Devops: Infrastructure as code. or dbt's viewpoint on analytics as code (see https://blog.getdbt.com/building-a-mature-analytics-workflow... ) So I'm seeing it as an exercise in finding sweet spots. There are things that have been mostly manual or point-and-click and people are seeing wins from defining and managing them as…
Comment linking /building-a-mature-analytics-workflow/
on “Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?”Submitted The next layer of the modern data stack as a story · 1 points
HN discussiondbt Labs | Remote, USA | Transforming Data & Teams : https://www.getdbt.com/ We're a distributed remote team with a public commitment to open source, transparency, and creating more value than we capture. Check us out on Enterprise Tech 30: ( https://www.enterprisetech30.com/#mid-stage ) Here's a bit about us: Our open-source software, dbt, enables anyone who knows SQL to engineer, document, and test data pipelines.…
Comment linking /of-the-community-by-the-community-fo
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)”Submitted Of the Community, by the Community, for the Community as a story · 1 points
HN discussiondbt Labs | Remote, USA | Transforming Data & Teams : https://www.getdbt.com/ We're a distributed remote team with a public commitment to open source, transparency, and creating more value than we capture. Check us out on Enterprise Tech 30: ( https://www.enterprisetech30.com/#mid-stage ) Here's a bit about us: Our open-source software, dbt, enables anyone who knows SQL to engineer, document, and test data pipelines.…
Comment linking /of-the-community-by-the-community-fo
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)”Submitted The four priorities of a one-person analytics team: lessons from Lola.com (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussiondbt Labs | Remote, USA | Transforming Data & Teams : https://www.getdbt.com/ We're a distributed remote team with a public commitment to open source, transparency, and creating more value than we capture. Check us out on Enterprise Tech 30: ( https://www.enterprisetech30.com/#mid-stage ) Here's a bit about us: Our open-source software, dbt, enables anyone who knows SQL to engineer, document, and test data pipelines.…
Comment linking /of-the-community-by-the-community-fo
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)”Submitted Fishtown Analytics (DBT) Announces $12.9M Fundraise as a story · 1 points
HN discussiondbt Labs | Remote, USA | Transforming Data & Teams : https://www.getdbt.com/ We're a distributed remote team with a public commitment to open source, transparency, and creating more value than we capture. Check us out on Enterprise Tech 30: ( https://www.enterprisetech30.com/#mid-stage ) Here's a bit about us: Our open-source software, dbt, enables anyone who knows SQL to engineer, document, and test data pipelines.…
Comment linking /of-the-community-by-the-community-fo
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)”Submitted Fishtown Analytics Announces $12.9M Fundraise as a story · 1 points
HN discussiondbt Labs | Remote, USA | Transforming Data & Teams : https://www.getdbt.com/ We're a distributed remote team with a public commitment to open source, transparency, and creating more value than we capture. Check us out on Enterprise Tech 30: ( https://www.enterprisetech30.com/#late-stage ) Here's a bit about us: Our open-source software, dbt, enables anyone who knows SQL to engineer, document, and test data pipelines…
Comment linking /next-layer-of-the-modern-data-stack/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)”Submitted What Is an Analytics Engineer? (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNice overview. I'd suggest to anyone interested in doing something like this to also consider the much simpler managed approach of using tools like: * Stitch [etl/elt] * Snowflake [data warehouse] * dbt [transformations] I'd recommend taking a look at dbt [1] for a refreshing approach to this domain. The AWS EMR Redshift approach is great if you _know_ you'll need all the configurability, but chances are you won't,…
Comment linking /analytics-engineering-for-everyone/
on “Show HN: Goodreads Data Pipeline”"Transform" step is happening after the load to data warehouse here. https://blog.getdbt.com/what--exactly--is-dbt-/ is a pretty good overview.
Comment linking /what--exactly--is-dbt-/
on “Meltano: ELT for the DataOps era”Reminds me of Panoply, which had native SaaS integrations, a managed Redshift instance on the back-end, and a BI layer on top. Basically a fully turn-key "modern data stack" [1]. The stack is way easier to operate than it has ever been before, but still requires folks with expertise to manage each of the components. [1] https://blog.getdbt.com/future-of-the-modern-data-stack/
Comment linking /future-of-the-modern-data-stack/
on “Launch HN: Mozart Data (YC S20) – One-stop shop for a modern data pipeline”It is primarily a tool for analytics engineers (coined by the dbt team I think[]) to write more robust, managed, version controlled, DRY analytics SQL. The tool is designed to be run on an analytics data warehouse (Snowflake/Bigquery/Redshift) and generally used to provide fact & dimension tables to BI/visualisation tools. I get your confusion, I don't think it is designed for a DBA, but it makes a great tool for an…
Comment linking /what-is-an-analytics-engineer/
on “Ask HN: What Is the Point of Dbt?”
