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A practical 2026 roadmap for mid-level data engineers in the US: the skills that still matter, the ones AI made…
A new CDO walks into the office on a Monday. By Friday they have a list. Forty-seven dashboards. Six BI…
Most retailers pick new store locations the same way they did in 2005: a heatmap, a real-estate broker, and a…
A one-point increase in net sales per unit looks like a sticker change. In a real consumer goods business it…
You have a folder of 240 SQL files and no execution order. dbt is the answer to exactly that folder.…
This is a walk-through of one consulting engagement, not a theoretical piece on AI tooling. The brief was small enough…
I spent three years writing about Redash. The first post in late 2018 framed it as on-demand analytics with a…
When we adapted Slava Shestopalov’s “10 rules for better dashboard design” in late 2020, the list felt close to definitive.…
Most teams still treat Telegram the way they did in 2021: scrape a channel, pull a list, hope the API…
The 2026 head-to-head moved past features. Pricing, real concurrency, and operational fit decide it. List prices, TCO scenarios, the Fivetran…
Five engineers on Max plans, two months of receipts, and three rollouts (Fivetran, Metabase, MetaLens) with concrete time and cost…
How to set up dbt Labs' official MCP server with Claude Code, including a real legacy-project audit story, the read-only…
How to set up Fivetran's official MCP server with Claude Code, with a real client case study (HelpScout to BigQuery),…
Practical guide to wiring Google's MCP Toolbox for Databases into Claude Code for BigQuery work. Setup commands, the .mcp.json block,…
Practical guide to running OpenClaw for a data team. Self-hosted on a Hostinger VPS, ChatGPT OAuth for primary inference, Moonshot…
A practical 2026 guide to the modern data stack: ingestion, warehouse, transformation, BI, and orchestration. Tools compared, decision framework, FAQ,…
A 7-step data strategy roadmap framework for growth-stage companies. One-page template, sequencing by ROI, governed metrics layer, 90-day review cadence
A practical walkthrough of using Metabase MCP with Claude Code on real client projects: dashboard audits in seconds, SQL from…