[Tech] dbt as a standard - Laurie Voss

<p>Listen to The Right Track: https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-right-track/ep-6-domain-expertise-with-laurie-voss-of-netlify/</p><p><br><strong>Transcript</strong></p><p><strong>Stefania</strong>: I wanted to maybe shift a little bit in terms of how the industry is changing before we move on to how you have seen data cultures being built and data trusts being undermined and all those things.</p><p>Can you talk a little bit about how you see the industry has changed in the past few years?</p><p><strong>Laurie</strong>: Yeah. I wrote a blog post about this recently.</p><p>I think it's probably the thing that spurred you to invite me to this podcast in the first place.</p><p><strong>Stefania</strong>: Correct.</p><p><strong>Laurie</strong>: Which is about nine months ago, I was introduced to DBT. DBT has been around for awhile now, I think five or six years, but it was new to me nine months ago.</p><p>And it definitely seems to be exponentially gaining in momentum at the moment.</p><p>I hear more and more people are using it and see more and more stuff built on top of it.</p><p>And the analogy that I made in the blog post is as a web developer, it felt kind of like Rails in 2006.</p><br>Ruby on Rails very fundamentally changed how web development was done, because web development prior to that was everybody has sort of like figured out some architecture for their website and it works okay. But it means that every time you hire someone to a company, you have to teach them your architecture. And it would take them a couple of weeks, or if it was complicated, it would take them a couple of months to figure out your architecture and become productive. And Ruby on Rails changed that.<p>Ruby on Rails was you hire someone and you say, "Well, it's a Rails app."</p><p>And on day one, they're productive.</p><p>They know how to change Rails apps.</p><p>They know how to configure them.</p><p>They know how to write the HTML and CSS and every other thing.</p><p>And that taking the time to productivity for a