Diederik Jan LemkesHow to choose between dbt clone and dbt defer. And how we clone for all contributors.Dbt clone has helped improve the speed and quality of our deployments.6 min read·5 days ago----
Diederik Jan LemkesShould you consume this data? Look, smell, taste and do(n’t) waste!In my work, I’m often presented with new datasets. Understanding whether or not to invest in working with this new dataset is key. A wrong…2 min read·May 29, 2024----
Diederik Jan LemkesBetter dbt docs with Mermaid diagramsdbt-diagrams adds Mermaid rendering capabilities to your dbt docs pages. Because just lineage docs != data model docs.3 min read·Apr 2, 2024----
Diederik Jan LemkesinbigdatarepublicBuilding a data platform: some gotchas and best practices distilledtldr; we provide some opinionated best practices for building your data platform. Make sure to check those out.9 min read·Oct 19, 2021----
Diederik Jan LemkesinbigdatarepublicStaying in control of your IAM modelVisualise and query your cloud resource permissions using Mia8 min read·Jan 12, 2021----
Diederik Jan LemkesTrying again, asyncLately, I finally have been getting my feet wet on the new async, await syntax in JS world. Having skipped the Node callback hell because…1 min read·Nov 8, 2017----
Diederik Jan LemkesTrying againI’ve been doing some back-end work lately in which a lot of external services have to be communicated with over the network. The…1 min read·Oct 19, 2017----
