➔ dbt-core This Week: DuckDB Catalog Stack and Warehouse Adapter Fixes
dbt-core landed 56 commits on main this week, touching 464 files. The headline work is a two part DuckDB catalog stack that routes models through DuckLake, local filesystem, Iceberg REST, Horizon, and Unity catalogs with explicit write strategies. Warehouse adapters picked up fixes that matter in production, and state:modified got less noisy for seeds.
➔ Data Transformation on AWS: Glue, EMR, Redshift, Flink, and Lambda Compared
Previous: Data Ingestion Patterns
Book: AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate Study Guide Authors: Sakti Mishra, Dylan Qu, Anusha Challa Publisher: O’Reilly Media ISBN: 978-1-098-17007-3
Second part of Chapter 4, covering data transformation. The first part was about ingestion. Now we look at what happens after the data lands. You need to clean it, reshape it, enrich it, and get it into a format that analysts and applications can actually use.