Lessons from a Year of Contributing to Open Source
A year ago I decided a top priority for 2020 was finding an open source project to contribute to. In this post I reflect on my experience, what I wish I’d known before I started, and to what extent my initial expectations held true.
ReadGreat Expectations Show and Tell #2
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting some of Tails.com's Great Expectations development and deployment practices with the community, alongside our Lead Data Scientist Lorna Brightmore. If you've heard of Great Expectations but not sure how you'd use it in practice, take a watch! Link in the post.
Readdbt Office Hours - Increasing Development Velocity
My dbt Office Hours talk from a couple of weeks back is now on YouTube. Topics include efficient CI with dbt, actionable automated testing, the importance of an enjoyable contribution process and how SQLFluff can help. Link in the post.
ReadThe importance of data alerting, and how to achieve it using Great Expectations
As data and analytics models become increasingly used for both human decision making and automated processes, reliable alerting has become an essential component of the modern data stack. In this post I discuss ways to achieve it and introduce Great Expectations from the team at Superconductive, a tool which introduces a solution to create alerts based on data.
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