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Tobiko • Data transformation, without the waste

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Tobiko • Data transformation, without the waste is the company blog at tobikodata.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Tobiko (creators of sqlmesh) acquires Quary”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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17mentions?
6HN people?
2023–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for posts on the modern data stack and data transformation tooling, including SQLMesh and its comparison with dbt. The comments mention it only in passing, without judging the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Get complete visibility and control over your data pipelines. Save time and warehouse costs, and run only the changes that matter, with full confidence.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Tobiko (creators of sqlmesh) acquires Quary
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-15
  2. Traps and Pitfalls of Using SQL with Jinja
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. > CI/CD, versioned deployment artifacts, zero downtime deployments, unit testing, observability, monitoring and alerting. This definitely stood out to me when I was working with a lot of Snowflake’s new products, especially their “native apps”. I started on some bespoke tooling given the lack of everything that you mentioned and at the time was thinking about how to productize it / turn it into some open source tool…

    Comment linking /

    on “Is the "modern data stack" still a useful idea?”
  2. Submitted Dbt – Incremental but Incomplete as a story · 67 points

    HN discussion
  3. There are many teams using SQLMesh in production. Fivetran, Harness, Hopper, Pitchbook to name a few. You can read some case studies here https://tobikodata.com/harness.html or join Slack to meet with folks to learn more about their experiences.

    Comment linking /harness.html

    on “Dbt – Incremental but Incomplete”
  4. Submitted Stop wasting time and money rebuilding your tables unnecessarily as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Automatically detecting breaking changes in SQL queries as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Tobiko (creators of sqlmesh) acquires Quary as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Traps and Pitfalls of Using SQL with Jinja as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Traps and Pitfalls of Using SQL with Jinja as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Semantic Understanding of SQL as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Tobiko Acquires Quary (YC W24) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Making SQLMesh Faster as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted How to build a thriving open-source community as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Data Completeness: To Stream or Not to Stream as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted We Need Even Greater Expectations When Testing Data as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Simplicity or Efficiency: How Dbt Makes You Choose as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Correctly Loading Incremental Data at Scale as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted The False Promise of Dbt Contracts as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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