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dbt Labs
Company blog · getdbt.com/blogdataprogramming
dbt Labs is the company blog at getdbt.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2017, 65 different Hacker News readers have linked it 100 times, most often “Analytics Engineering Workflow”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link getdbt.com for the dbt SQL transformation tool and dbt Labs' job listings. The one article pointed to describes the analytics engineer role.
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dbt Labs empowers data teams to build reliable, governed data pipelines—accelerating analytics and AI initiatives with speed and confidence.
Most-linked posts?
- Analytics Engineering Workflow32 people · 41 mentions · first linked 2018-08-17
- Dbt (data build tool) – Transform data in your warehouse5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-10-28
- /dbt-labs/open-roles/](https://www.getdbt.com/dbt-labs/open-roles/)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-02
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-07
- Dbt Cloud announces a change from seat-based to consumption-based pricing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-10
- DBT Labs and Fivetran Sign Definitive Agreement to Merge2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-14
- Dbt Labs signs definitive agreement to acquire Transform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-08
What Hacker News says?
You might be interested in this project then https://www.getdbt.com/ it's a SQL compiler and executor which has many features like you're talking about (macros to generate SQL and so on). It makes it pretty easy to build up a complex DAG of SQL queries and transformations.
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on “SQL: One of the most valuable skills”Submitted Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs as a story · 109 points
HN discussionI fell in love again with SQL while working in my current position. What _really_ made me fall in love was the project dbt[0] which is a SQL compiler and executor. You can build a DAG of transformations all the way from your raw data to tables ready for viewing in your BI tool or consumption by your ML model. I'm still amazed at the things I can do with SQL alone without having to bring Python into the picture. Also…
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on “SQL: One of the most valuable skills”Submitted DBT Cloud increase Team plan price by 100% and limit features at the same time as a story · 7 points
HN discussionA new role has arisen in the last few years that captures much of this responsibility - Analytics Engineer. This article by Claire Carroll describes the role and motivation for it https://www.getdbt.com/what-is-analytics-engineering/
Comment linking /what-is-analytics-engineering/
on “Building a data team at a mid-stage startup”Submitted Dbt (data build tool) – Transform data in your warehouse as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI fully agree with your experience here. We have a super hard mission at Chartio - it's not just about the interface but also how the data is setup. The interface, being as flexible as it is and also enabling full schema (instead of dataset) browsing is a pretty big part though in also allowing a more agile version of data modeling. It had that very much in mind and we've written a book (soon to be published with Wi…
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on “Show HN: Visual SQL”Submitted Fusion and the dbt VS Code extension are now in Preview for local development as a story · 3 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. About Us: Our open-source software, dbt, enables anyone who knows SQL to engineer, document, and test data pipelines. By letting analysts work like data engineers, dbt makes it faster, cheaper and easier for teams to…
Comment linking /dbt-labs/open-roles/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted Dbt Labs Acquires SDF Labs as a story · 3 points
HN discussiondbt [1] is a tool that is deceptively simple, but kind of created a new job role: analytics engineer. It allow you to define tables using SQL plus Jinja2, so you can add loops and variables to create your SQL code. It might sound complicated, but it's a pleasure to work with. This improvement was only possible because of other improvements in cloud databases and reductions in storage costs, which allowed us to go fr…
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on “Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?”Submitted The Analytics Development Lifecycle as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat first point is exactly what dbt ( https://www.getdbt.com/ ) does. It's an amazing tool, with extremely well thought out developer ergonomics.
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on “Using PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse”Submitted dbt Cloud has second price hike in a year with addition of usage-based pricing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFishtown Analytics | https://fishtownanalytics.com/ | Full Time | Remote, anywhere in the United States At Fishtown Analytics, our mission is to empower analysts to create and disseminate organizational knowledge. Over the course of the past several years we've built a community of 6,000+ people and 2,500 companies who are using our ideas, products, and workflows to conduct analytics, including Lyft, Monzo, GitLab,…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”Submitted Dbt Cloud announces a change from seat-based to consumption-based pricing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFishtown Analytics | Full-Stack Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-Time | https://fishtownanalytics.com At Fishtown Analytics, we develop software that helps data teams be more effective. Our products empowers thousands of data analysts and engineers and we care deeply about providing the best possible experience for them. Our product, dbt ( https://getdbt.com ), is used at hundreds of companies, and that number is g…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)”Submitted Dbt Labs lays off 15% across the board as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFishtown Analytics | Full-Stack Software Engineer | Full-time | Remote | https://fishtownanalytics.com At Fishtown Analytics, we develop software that helps data teams be more effective. Our product, dbt ( https://getdbt.com ), empowers thousands of data analysts and engineers and we care deeply about providing a great experience for them. We're looking for a software engineer to build cloud applications that make u…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)”Submitted Dbt Labs Is Hiring Engineers (US Remote) as a story · 2 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.…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted The Modern Data Stack: Past, Present, and Future as a story · 2 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.…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted Analytics Engineering Workflow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you haven't come across it yet, DBT (data build tool) is a nice solution to the later parts of the pipeline (once you have the raw source data somewhere) https://www.getdbt.com/
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on “Terraform should have remained stateless”Submitted Fivetran and dbt are one company now as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMetabase is pretty good if you have a nicely configured datawarehouse (Snowflake, Bigquery good options). If you are connecting metabase directly to your app database then you will probably run into issues trying to integrate another data set (say CRM data). This is where it makes sense to ELT (extract, load, transform) everything into a datawarehouse, integrate the data there and transform as much as possible, and…
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on “Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners”Submitted DBT Labs and Fivetran Sign Definitive Agreement to Merge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is great. Things to keep on your radar: Meltano spun out of Gitlab is working in this domain, I think they are making progress. https://meltano.com/ dbt are building the transformation engine that Meltano is using (I think), and are worth keeping an eye on https://www.getdbt.com/ In my experience the issue with this domain isn't the "one-off" analysis, but rather orchestrating the BI function across the busines…
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on “Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners”Submitted Fivetran and Dbt Labs Unite to Set the Standard for Open Data Infrastructure as a story · 1 points
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