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Semantic Debt: A Detour into Technical Debt
David Grover David Grover

Semantic Debt: A Detour into Technical Debt

In the second post of series on semantic debt, we make sure we’re clear on what technical debt is. Tech debt is expected rework to a production codebase caused by a specific decision. That means tech debt has to be based on real code before the debt can be real. And sometimes tech debt can disappear all on its own.

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Semantic Debt: A Series
David Grover David Grover

Semantic Debt: A Series

When a company can’t calculate campaign ROI, total units sold last year or days from order to delivery, they have a systemic problem integrating and using their data. We think of that as a semantic debt.

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Data Analyst’s Introduction to dbt
Claire Taylor Claire Taylor

Data Analyst’s Introduction to dbt

So you’re a data analyst and you’ve heard people talking about dbt, but don’t really know what it’s all about? If so this article is for you.

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