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Title	Author	Published	Words	HN Pts
Building your first CI pipeline for your dbt project	Elliot Gunn	2024-02-07	587	--
Accelerating dbt core CI/CD with GitHub actions: A step-by-step guide	Kyle McNair	2023-05-08	1,033	--
What is CI, and why should you care about it	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2023-08-15	1,715	--
Sunsetting open source data-diff	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-05-17	402	--
Announcing Development Testing for dbt – Develop faster with higher confidence	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2023-04-24	859	--
ETL pipeline testing: Validate, validate, validate	Datafold Team	2023-12-11	134	--
The Modern Data Stack: Open-source edition	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-10-04	1,155	--
The Best Data Contract is the Pull Request	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2022-09-07	771	--
SIs + Datafold: Better partners than competitors	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2025-08-27	192	--
Taking your dbt CI pipeline to the next level	Elliot Gunn	2024-03-22	406	--
Code review best practices for Analytics Engineers	Kyle McNair	2022-12-16	496	--
Tips for getting the most out of your dbt Cloud setup	Madison Schott	2023-10-10	944	--
Scaling data monitoring with ease: Updates to Datafold Monitors	Kira Furuichi	2024-12-09	581	--
Practical guide: Replicating data from Postgres to Snowflake	Datafold Team	2025-01-27	1,188	--
4 data migration trends in 2025: AI, data lakes, and more	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2025-03-03	754	--
Unlocking data quality with automated regression testing	Datafold Team	2023-10-10	809	--
Lakebridge alternatives: Why Datafold is the best choice	Elliot Gunn	2025-06-18	453	--
Announcing Datafold's SOC2 Type II Report	Gerard Toonstra	2022-05-02	427	--
Data Quality Meetup #8	Datafold Team	2023-02-09	187	--
Data reconciliation challenges and solutions	Elliot Gunn	2024-07-24	237	--
4 data quality best practices to help you get to data ROI …	Zoe Hawkins	2024-01-10	733	--
What is data diffing?	Kira Furuichi	2023-08-14	974	--
Best practices for data diffing with a shift-left approach	Insung Ko	2024-10-10	421	--
Announcing Bitbucket + Azure DevOps Integrations in Datafold	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-01-16	373	--
Build trust in your data with data lineage	Datafold Team	2023-09-25	649	--
Introducing No-Code CI	Gleb Mezhanskiy, Kira Furuichi, Nick Carchedi	2024-06-17	738	--
Announcing support for Microsoft SQL Server in Datafold	Kira Furuichi	2024-02-06	356	--
Building a Data Warehouse Migration Strategy for Seamless Cloud Transitions	Datafold Team	2025-01-02	2,762	--
Datafold is now available on Azure Marketplace	Kira Furuichi	2024-02-02	169	--
The era of AI-driven data migrations is finally here	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-12-17	306	--
Choosing Data Warehouse for Analytics	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2023-06-26	1,642	--
Data Quality Meetup #9: Running dbt at scale	Datafold Team	2023-05-11	164	--
What is data replication? And how to make sure you're doing it …	Kira Furuichi	2023-09-21	1,348	--
Data migration challenges and how to overcome them	Kira Furuichi	2023-09-20	1,718	--
How we're evolving cross-database diffing in Datafold	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-03-18	879	--
MySQL to Snowflake Migration: Challenges, Best Practices, and Practical Guide	--	2025-01-08	974	--
Open source data-diff	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2022-06-22	807	--
Automate dbt development testing in Snowflake with data-diff	Daniel Lawin	2023-03-23	627	--
Datafold + dbt: Ship Better Data	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2022-03-30	582	--
Understanding your Data: The People Behind it	Emilie Schario	2022-10-07	1,772	--
Understanding your Data: The Process that Makes it Work	Emilie Schario	2022-11-11	647	--
How to diff your data during a data migration	Leo Folsom, Kira Furuichi	2024-02-09	912	--
Looker vs Tableau: A battle of the ages	Kira Furuichi	2023-08-24	1,844	--
Crafting a data quality scorecard	Datafold Team	2024-07-02	268	--
On making your OLAP database your source-of-truth	Kira Furuichi	2025-01-15	1,059	--
The Slicer vs. The Kraken: What we built to migrate a 300K-character …	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2025-07-14	240	--
What is data reconciliation? Use cases, techniques, and challenges	Elliot Gunn	2024-07-17	487	--
audit_helper vs data-diff for validating dbt model changes	Leo Folsom	2023-03-29	530	--
Migrating data is easy, migrating code is hard.	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2025-02-21	320	--
Announcing the Looker Integration for Datafold Cloud	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2023-08-28	576	--
Evaluating dbt Cloud features vs dbt Core	Kyle Mcnair	2023-02-21	1,442	--
Three practices to migrate to dbt faster	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-11-06	417	--
How to use dbt source freshness tests to detect stale data	Madison Schott	2023-04-11	1,511	--
How to Create dbt Freshness Alerts	Kyle McNair	2022-09-27	920	--
Demystifying data quality management	Datafold Team	2023-12-12	182	--
Replicating Postgres to BigQuery: A practical guide	Datafold Team	2025-02-03	393	--
Data migrations reimagined: Introducing the AI-powered Datafold Migration Agent	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-10-30	131	--
Data Migration Risks and How To Avoid Them	Datafold Team	2025-03-03	1,700	--
The Anatomy of a Data Migration	Kira Furuichi	2024-12-24	1,549	--
Data integrity vs. data quality	Datafold	2024-05-24	1,298	--
What could your smartest data engineer be doing instead of a 6-month …	Leo Folsom, Elliot Gunn	2025-03-26	210	--
Announcing the Dremio integration in Datafold	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-04-19	837	--
Announcing support for MySQL in Datafold	Kira Furuichi	2024-02-13	410	--
What we're looking forward to at Coalesce 2023	Leo Folsom, Sung Won Chung, Kira Furuichi	2023-09-27	1,317	--
Simplify your SQL Server migration: Automate, validate, and modernize	Datafold	2024-12-10	472	--
Enterprises Whose Bad Data Cost Them Millions: Lessons from Samsung and Uber	Datafold Team	2023-10-05	753	--
The $10B opportunity hidden in legacy ETL migrations	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2025-05-12	326	--
dbt lineage: What it is, and why it's important	Gleb Mezhanskiy, Kira Furuichi	2024-05-09	527	--
Datafold's AI-powered data migration with automated end-to-end data validation	Leo Folsom	2025-02-12	527	--
Choosing the right data lineage tools for your analytics work	Datafold Team	2023-09-27	1,413	--
Buy not build	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2023-08-01	437	--
The future of data engineering is AI-powered	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2025-01-29	569	--
Data observability tools vs data quality tools	Datafold Team	2023-11-22	881	--
The future of data migrations: 6 trends SIs need to prepare for	Elliot Gunn	2025-04-24	351	--
Best practices for using dbt with Snowflake	Madison Schott	2023-06-12	1,349	--
Why Data Lineage Matters and Why it's so Challenging	Alex Morozov	2022-05-16	730	--
Datafold is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace	Kira Furuichi	2024-06-20	137	--
7 dbt testing best practices	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-05-07	246	--
How to Onboard Analytics Engineers	Kenny Ning	2022-07-19	1,289	--
Data Warehouse Modernization Starts with Automated Validation	Datafold Team	2025-03-03	1,775	--
How to use dbt-expectations to detect data quality issues	Madison Schott	2023-03-17	1,758	--
It's almost 2025 and data teams are still stuck in the 'Pre-CI' …	Elliot Gunn, Alex Mill	2024-12-05	247	--
Using the dbt semantic layer to easily build semantic models	Datafold Team	2024-04-05	610	--
Translating the untranslatable: Datafold Migration Agent now supports ALL major ETL tools	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2025-05-28	511	--
Book Digest: 97 Things Every Data Engineer Should Know	Datafold Team	2022-01-19	9,007	--
4 ways to build dbt Python models	Bruno Souza de Lima	2023-02-23	3,001	--
Where Do Data Quality Issues Come From?	Matthew David	2022-12-16	1,218	--
Setting up dbt development environments	Kyle McNair	2023-12-15	269	--
Datafold catches unintended changes to immutable data	Leo Folsom, Elliot Gunn	2024-06-04	421	--
Why create an open source extension of Data Diff?	Matthew David	2022-08-09	879	--
The Lowdown: Open source data-diff vs. Datafold Cloud	Kira Furuichi	2023-08-14	1,448	--
How to build a successful cloud migration testing strategy	Datafold Team	2024-01-30	141	--
Announcing the Tableau Integration for Datafold Cloud	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2023-11-13	297	--
Data migrations: 80% done, 80% left	Elliot Gunn	2025-04-08	257	--
Testing data pipelines: The Modern Data Stack challenge	Ari Bajo Rouvinen	2023-04-06	1,056	--
Data reconciliation: Technical best practices	Elliot Gunn	2024-07-31	551	--
The Data Engineering Podcast: Reconciling the data in your databases	Elliot Gunn	2024-04-01	390	--
The 8 dimensions of data quality	Datafold Team	2023-11-03	713	--
SnowConvert AI alternatives: Why Datafold is the better choice	Elliot Gunn	2025-06-27	678	--
Optimize ETL processes with dbt	Datafold Team	2024-07-04	467	--
Datafold for Everyone	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2022-06-02	1,026	--
Slim CI: The Cost-Effective Solution for Successful Deployments in dbt Cloud	Leo Folsom	2023-04-27	543	--
Datafold is now available on the AWS Marketplace.	Richie Corcoran	2023-05-17	179	--
What is the Datafold Migration Agent, and how does it work?	Kira Furuichi	2025-02-18	1,322	--
What is a data catalog?	Datafold Team	2024-06-19	501	--
The difference between Datafold tests and dbt tests	Leo Folsom, Elliot Gunn	2024-05-02	332	--
Understanding data quality issues and solutions	Ari Bajo	2023-03-02	1,343	--
What to do with CI results in your dbt project?	Elliot Gunn	2024-07-01	190	--
Introducing NoSQL and file diffing in Datafold	Kira Furuichi	2025-01-21	566	--
Running dbt with Airflow	Forrest Bajbek	2022-09-21	910	--
The State of Data Testing	Pedram Navid	2023-01-18	1,012	--
The day you stopped breaking your data	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2022-07-25	1,714	--
Top dbt utils and how to use them in your project	Datafold Team	2023-06-20	1,116	--
Lift-and-shift migration: What it is and why it's better	Kira Furuichi	2024-11-19	1,035	--
Why Looker was and Lightdash is a big deal for BI	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2023-07-28	655	--
Data quality checks: Why you need them	Datafold Team	2024-07-08	280	--
Replicating Postgres to Redshift: A practical guide	Datafold Team	2025-02-17	539	--
Github Best Practices for Analytics Engineering	Madison Schott	2023-08-29	805	--
3 cloud data migration tools to consider	Datafold Team	2024-01-30	212	--
Introducing data replication testing in Datafold	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-04-02	877	--
SQL Tools on the Command Line	Matthew David	2023-11-10	937	--
Unit Test vs an Integration Test for dbt	Forrest Bajbek	2022-09-28	403	--
Automating data quality testing in CI with Datafold	Elliot Gunn	2024-07-10	1,617	--
Understanding Your Data: The Technology That Powers It	Emilie Schario	2023-02-07	1,092	--
Datafold in CI is for everyone (even if you don't use dbt)	Leo Folsom	2023-11-15	467	--
Datafold Partners with Snowflake and Achieves Select Tier Partner Status	Richie Corcoran	2022-10-11	215	--
Shifting Data Quality to the Left: A Four-Level Framework	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2023-01-26	369	--
Data monitors: Best practices for 3 data engineering scenarios	Elliot Gunn	2024-10-16	498	--
Quick setup guide to installing dbt Core on an M1 Mac	Kyle McNair	2024-02-15	241	--
Datafold Achieves Google Cloud Ready - BigQuery Designation	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2025-04-02	548	--
How to Simplify Your Move from a Data Warehouse to a Data …	Datafold Team	2024-11-26	2,177	--
From testing to monitoring: Datafold's unified data quality platform	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-10-01	803	--
When it's time to level-up your dbt tests: 5 reasons to consider …	Kira Furuichi	2023-08-17	1,666	--
Overcoming Legacy Data Migration Challenges with Confidence	Datafold Team	2025-03-03	2,287	--
Uncovering Apache Airflow's 3 most underused features	Datafold Team	2024-01-05	1,146	--
Hightouch Integration	Matthew David	2022-07-28	216	--
The Complete Data Migration Checklist: Simplifying Lift-and-Shift Transitions	Datafold Team	2025-01-07	634	--
dbt seeds: What they are and how to use them	Datafold Team	2024-06-26	430	--
Improving the Modern Data Stack - Recap of Monday Morning Data Chat	Matthew David	2022-10-01	904	--
The top data observability tools	Elliot Gunn	2024-09-20	287	--
The evolution of data migrations: Past, present, and AI-powered future	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-09-26	361	--
Datafold + dbt: The Perfect Stack for Reliable Data Pipelines	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2022-02-05	772	--
AI in data engineering: Use cases, benefits, and challenges	Kira Furuichi	2025-03-05	1,403	--
What is data observability?	Elliot Gunn	2024-09-12	496	--
dbt unit testing best practices	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-05-06	782	--
3 different ways to diff data	Kenny Ning	2024-01-10	733	--
Every migration is an edge case nightmare. Can AI break the deadlock?	Graham Whitelaw	2025-03-18	244	--
What is Datafold Cloud?	Kira Furuichi	2023-09-05	648	--
At the frontier of velocity and data quality	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-01-03	279	--
data-diff and MotherDuck: Better together	Sung Won Chung	2024-01-12	583	--
What is data validation?	Datafold	2024-05-27	873	--
Announcing the Power BI Integration	Kira Furuichi	2024-11-12	378	--
Data Quality Meetup #7	Datafold Team	2022-10-06	2,559	--
Data modernization for SIs: From migration vendor to strategic partner	Elliot Gunn	2025-04-14	245	--
Why Conduct Data Quality Post-mortems?: Lessons learned from GitLab, Google, and Facebook	Datafold Team	2023-09-22	1,164	--
A Modern Data Migration Framework for AI-Powered Success	Datafold Team	2025-01-06	1,990	--
Announcing support for Oracle in Datafold	Kira Furuichi	2024-02-08	339	--
dbt exposures: What they are and how to use them	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2024-05-08	546	--
9 Best Tools for Data Quality in 2024	Datafold Team	2024-09-04	1,515	--
The 3-in-1 toolkit for faster data migrations	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2023-12-04	288	--
Is Datafold the right data quality testing tool for you?	Kira Furuichi	2023-09-01	1,271	--
Data pipeline monitoring: What it is and how to implement data quality …	Elliot Gunn	2024-10-24	200	--
Replicating MongoDB to BigQuery: A practical guide	Datafold Team	2025-02-06	381	--
To Diff or not to Diff: The cloud migration testing question	Datafold Team	2024-02-21	694	--
How to Migrate from Redshift to Snowflake	Matthew David	2022-12-05	700	--
Data Diff gets faster and simpler: One algorithm, better performance	Nick Carchedi	2025-09-09	306	--
Introducing the 2025 Data Migration Benchmark Survey	Elliot Gunn	2025-09-18	222	--
Introducing the Datafold Migration Agent 2.0	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2025-09-29	658	--
The fastest way to migrate your dbt projects to Databricks is here	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2025-10-09	359	--
Data Engineering in 2026: 12 Predictions	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2026-03-06	3,833	--
Datafold Joins the Exclusive Databricks Delivery Provider Program to Automate Migrations	Gleb Mezhanskiy	2026-04-11	899	--

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