How Bitrise Runs 1,200+ dbt Models in Production

A conversation with Balázs Máté, Staff Data Engineer at Bitrise, on running dbt in production at scale — their stack, their workflow, and the lessons learned along the way. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — Intro & Bitrise overview 01:34 — The data stack: BigQuery, Airflow, Debezium, Metabase 04:09 — Marimo notebooks & the AI Data Analyst 05:22 — Data volume, model count & tests 08:10 — Why dbt? What wasn't working before 09:59 — The dbt features that won them over 13:57 — Dev/test/prod environments & CI/CD workflow 19:15 — The hardest problems: cost control & incremental models 22:33 — Advice for anyone starting with dbt 🎓 This video is part of the Complete dbt Bootcamp on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/course/complete-dbt-... 🔗 Connect with us: Balázs Máté: https://www.linkedin.com/in/balazsmate/ Zoltan C. Toth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoltanctoth/ #dbt #DataEngineering #BigQuery #AnalyticsEngineering