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FinOps for Data Warehouses with Open Billing Data

FinOps for Data Warehouses with Open Billing Data

The FOCUS 1.3 specification and native warehouse cost views make real-time cost attribution practical. Learn how to build a FinOps pipeline for Snowflake, BigQuery, and multi-cloud environments.

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Using DuckDB and Polars to Query Iceberg Tables

Using DuckDB and Polars to Query Iceberg Tables

DuckDB 1.4 LTS and Polars streaming engine now both support reading and writing Apache Iceberg tables. Learn how to use them for lakehouse analytics in 2025.

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How dbt Fusion Reshapes Analytics Engineering

How dbt Fusion Reshapes Analytics Engineering

dbt Fusion entered public beta in May 2025 with a Rust-powered runtime that changes how analytics engineers develop, validate, and deploy SQL models. Here's what changed.

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Data Mesh After the Hype: What Actually Works

Data Mesh After the Hype: What Actually Works

Three years after Zhamak Dehghani's original papers, data mesh has proven valuable in specific organizational contexts and impractical in others. Here's what the practical implementations look like.

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