MWAA Migration: Move Apache Airflow Without Relearning Lessons
An operator’s MWAA migration plan—what moves as‑is, what to redesign, exact checks, and a parallel‑run cutover with rollback. Use it in‑house or bring us in.
7 min read
dbt Repo Performance
Cut dbt runtimes in half. Or better.
We audit every model, rewrite slow ones with incremental + microbatch strategies, prune unused exposures, and turn 4-hour runs into 40-minute runs.
The work
Slow dbt runs are rarely about Snowflake or BigQuery — they're about repo shape. Wide select-stars, materializations chosen by habit, missing incremental keys, stale exposures fan-out into a graph that runs for hours. We do the deep work most teams don't have the time for.
Outcomes
- Median model runtime cut 40–70%
- Critical path identified and shortened
- Compute spend reduced (Snowflake credits, BigQuery slot-hours)
- Stale models and exposures retired
- A repo your team can understand in a week, not a quarter
What you get
- Performance audit report (top 50 expensive models, recommendations)
- Refactored incremental + microbatch models for hot paths
- Tag strategy + selector-based scheduling
- Pre-commit + CI checks that prevent regressions
- Cost dashboard you actually look at
Further reading
All articles →Executive Dashboard Consulting: Deliverables That Work
A practitioner’s guide to scoping, building, and rolling out an executive dashboard that leadership trusts—definitions first, charts second.
9 min read
Data Warehouse Cost Allocation by Team, Product, Workload
A practical path from an opaque warehouse bill to a defensible cost ledger. Concrete Snowflake and BigQuery patterns, tags, roles, reservations, and showback/chargeback.
6 min read
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