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Charlie Summers

Charlie Summers

Staff Software Engineer at Merit

Charlie is the Data Engineer Tech Lead at Merit. He introduced Merit to dbt and it's been a fantastic fit for a wide variety of data pipelines. He likes thinking about the future of data - integrating event streams, analyzing encrypted data, capturing fine-grained lineage, and making it easy to build simple apps on top of data warehouses/lakes.

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Demystifying event streams: Transforming events into tables with dbt

· 13 min read
Charlie Summers
Charlie Summers
Staff Software Engineer at Merit

Let’s discuss how to convert events from an event-driven microservice architecture into relational tables in a warehouse like Snowflake. Here are a few things we’ll address:

  • Why you may want to use an architecture like this
  • How to structure your event messages
  • How to use dbt macros to make it easy to ingest new event streams