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Definitely, I can jump into what we meant by brittle—we mainly meant that SQL scripts are hard to debug/undescriptive, you can't parametrize and customize error messages that you r…

This is a great point—in terms of dynamic tables/materialized views, the software engineering best practices ie modularization, testing, version control are not as intuitive/straig…

We see this working more alongside Airflow—we see Airflow mainly centered as an orchestrator/scheduler to chain together your ETL steps after you've written your data transformatio…

Thanks for these links! We consider ourselves an ELT and ETL tool—if you run a Serra job in your own warehouse (ie Databricks), you can easily specify extracting from AWS, loading …

These are great links, we'll take a look

This is super insightful thanks a ton for this gold mine. On the python vs yaml part—definitely could've made that way more clear in the demo. Right now are framework lets you call…

Thank you we appreciate the support!

Yep we only showed our configuration file which instantiates the said Python objects. Definitely would've made the demo clearer, and if you want to look at the actual objects that …

These are all great points, and no, Disney didn't use dbt. We wanted the demo to show how you can modularize SQL into reusable objects that you can fully customize error logs for, …

Definitely a great point, adding one today

Hey HN! Alan and Albert here, cofounders of Serra. Serra is end-to-end dbt—we make building reliable, scalable ELT/ETL easy by replacing brittle SQL scripts with object-oriented Py…

This is awesome, the ability to assess image composition according to photography 'rules' especially is super intriguing. Could you provide some examples of the specific rules your…