A dbt Pipeline from DynamoDB to Redshift

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Migrating from Tableau to dbt on Redshift: What Worked, What Didn’t, and What I Wish I’d Known

Getting data out of DynamoDB, through Redshift, and into something your business can actually use — without losing your mind in the process.

I spent the last couple of years building out a data engineering function from scratch at a small SaaS company. We had a Tableau-based reporting pipeline that involved manual runs, fragile prep flows, and a mounting sense of dread every time someone asked for a new report. I replaced it with dbt, Redshift, and Fivetran, with self-hosted Metabase for business-intelligence, and with a detour through several tools that didn’t work out. Here’s what I learned.

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A dbt Pipeline from DynamoDB to Redshift