data-engineering Articles
Data strategy insights, analytics best practices, and lessons from real projects.
A practical 2026 roadmap for mid-level data engineers in the US: the skills that still matter, the ones AI made…
You have a folder of 240 SQL files and no execution order. dbt is the answer to exactly that folder.…
Most teams still treat Telegram the way they did in 2021: scrape a channel, pull a list, hope the API…
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),…
A practical 2026 guide to the modern data stack: ingestion, warehouse, transformation, BI, and orchestration. Tools compared, decision framework, FAQ,…
A practical walkthrough of using Metabase MCP with Claude Code on real client projects: dashboard audits in seconds, SQL from…
The modern data stack for startups in 2026 costs $500-$3,000/month at the early stage and $3,000-$15,000/month at growth stage —…
Fifteen production ClickHouse deployments later: when it earns its keep, when it bites, and how we decide between ClickHouse, Postgres…
ACID for analytics engineers without the textbook. Where it breaks in dbt, ClickHouse, Snowflake pipelines, and how to design around…