Self-Serve Review for Self-Serve Data
dbt has been revolutionary for data teams. ELT in general has changed the way we create and maintain data pipelines, but the biggest change has come in the form of ‘self-serve data’.
A self-serve data platform… supports creating new data products without the need for custom tooling or specialized knowledge. — dbt
The concept of self-serve data opened up access to the wider data team — You’ve probably found that all data roles in your team, from data engineer to data analyst, can have a hand in modifying and managing data, which brings new challenges to maintaining data stability.
Data Incidents still happen
Even with all of the benefits that dbt brings bad merges still happen. Your code is version controlled, and you can track and review code changes easier than ever, but data projects bring a unique challenge — you need to review the code and the data.