Who’s really using dbt?

And is Analytics Engineering really that different from Data Engineering?

If you’re not yet familiar with dbt, it’s a data transformation technology that is widely used to enable ELT workflows in the modern data stack (which these days generally means: an ingest tool like Fivetran or HVR, a transformation tool — usually dbt, and a cloud data warehouse, like Snowflake or BigQuery). It’s become really popular with analysts, data scientists, and analytics engineers, and in many ways, has become the de facto transformation technology for SQL-based cloud warehouses. When I joined dbt Labs, and…