Diederik Jan LemkesHow to query and materialize your semantic layer metrics directly from your dbt modelstl;dr materialize metrics directly inside your dbt models using the dbt-metric-utils Python package. This mostly brings back the…Sep 25Sep 25
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.Jun 201Jun 201
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…May 29May 29
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.Apr 2Apr 2
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.Oct 19, 2021Oct 19, 2021
Diederik Jan LemkesinbigdatarepublicStaying in control of your IAM modelVisualise and query your cloud resource permissions using MiaJan 12, 2021Jan 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…Nov 8, 2017Nov 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…Oct 19, 2017Oct 19, 2017
