Demystifying event streams: Transforming events into tables with dbt

Pulling data directly out of application databases is commonplace in the MDS, but also risky. Apps change quickly, and application teams might update database schemas in unexpected ways, leading to pipeline failures, data quality issues, data delivery slow-downs. There is a better way. In his session, Charlie Summers (Merit) describes how their organization transforms application event streams into analytics-ready tables, more resilient to event scheme changes.