The dbt community chronicle: December 2025

In December 2025, the dbt community focused on evolving analytics engineering practices and celebrated key contributors through community awards. A new State of Analytics Engineering survey was launched to shape industry standards, inviting participation from practitioners to enhance the accuracy of benchmarks. Over 700 data professionals attended a webinar introducing the Analytics Data Engineer benchmark, and community members shared insights gained in 2025, emphasizing skill development and collaboration. The community celebrated achievements with the dbt Community Awards, recognizing outstanding contributions from individuals like Marcelo Bour and Silja Mardla. Additionally, innovative tools and packages were showcased, such as a data news monitoring platform and the dbt-ml-eval package for machine learning evaluation. The community continued to grow, with active engagement across Slack channels and a push for further involvement through meetups, GitHub contributions, and certification courses. The dbt VS Code extension was highlighted as a key tool for local development, reflecting the community's commitment to enhancing analytics workflows.

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