Metadata
- Author: dbt Labs
- Full Title:: Data modeling techniques for more modularity
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: dbt,
- URL:: https://www.getdbt.com/analytics-engineering/modular-data-modeling-technique/
- Finished date:: 2023-07-22
Highlights
Let’s get into those 3 tenets of modular data modeling: naming conventions, readability, and ease of debugging + optimization. (View Highlight)
always strive to keep individual model files to roughly 100 lines of code for high readability. Generally data models shorter than 100 lines have avoided doing overly complex joining, either by limiting the raw number of joins, or by joining in simple ways (repeatedly on the same key) (View Highlight)