The Modern Data Viewpoint (3 Principles)

Dec 03, 2025

Building a solid data architecture is more than just the tools you pick.

Or the skills that you have.

A lot of times it has to do with your overall perspective and viewpoint on analytics as a whole.

 

Personally, much of my own thinking on this topic has been heavily influenced by the content put out by the folks at dbt Labs.

And I even cover the topic of this Viewpoint in a course of mine called "The Playbook for dbt™".

(Note: This is available inside Simple Stack Academy)

 

So in today's video, I'm actually going share with you a lesson directly from that training.

And despite the fact that this video was recorded 3-4 years ago, the concepts here are still as relevant as ever.

Whether or not you use dbt yourself, the ideas and strategies discussed will help you improve as a data engineer going forward no matter what.

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