· 4 min read
Orchestrators in 2026, the gap is closing from both sides
Airflow 3.2 shipped asset partitioning, Dagster went pay-as-you-go, and the asset-versus-task argument is ending in convergence. A review.
#airflow#dagster#orchestration
Tooling
5 articles
· 4 min read
ELT won. The bill for winning has arrived.
Transformation moved into the warehouse and brought its costs along. What the Fusion-era tooling race says about where the pain actually is.
#elt#dbt#transformation
· 4 min read
Transformation tooling in 2026, ranked by what actually hurts
The SQL transformation layer has one incumbent, one architectural challenger and a lot of noise. A rundown organized around the pain each tool removes.
#dbt#sqlmesh#transformation
· 2 min read
Reverse ETL, or the pipeline that apologizes for the last one
Syncing warehouse tables back into SaaS tools is sometimes necessary and often a symptom. How to tell which one you have.
#reverse-etl#pipelines#architecture
· 3 min read
Semantic layers, a reality check
Define the metric once, serve it everywhere. The promise is right, the adoption math is harder, and the graveyard has a pattern worth reading.
#semantic-layer#bi#metrics