Already comfortable with dbt basics? This workshop is where your skills get serious. Designed for practicing analytics engineers and data engineers who have moved past the fundamentals, this session explores the more powerful and often underused features of dbt that separate good pipelines from great ones.

Over the course of the workshop, you'll tackle incremental models and snapshots for handling large and slowly changing data, write custom and unit tests for bulletproof pipelines, and explore Python models for when SQL isn't enough. You'll also dig into debugging strategies, discover the most valuable packages in the dbt ecosystem, and even learn how to build and publish your own. This workshop pairs perfectly with the morning fundamentals session, but any practitioner with solid dbt experience will find it immediately applicable to their day-to-day work.