Building a metadata ecosystem with DBT by Darren Haken

dbt has democratised the role of ‘Analytics Engineering’. It has empowered a new wave of ‘data practitioners’ across teams within the Data Mesh.

The Data Mesh is an architectural paradigm that decentralises data into product teams over a centralised data team.

Combining dbt and the data mesh creates an explosion of data practitioners and with it many organisational challenges such as:
* How do you maintain high-quality dbt code across teams?
* Who owns what data?
* If data breaks in production who is the team responsible to fix it?
* How do you discover data built by other teams and leverage it within your own development?