Infrastructure
LinkedIn Ads ➡️ Snowflake, with 3-legged OAuth in the middle
LinkedIn's Marketing API needs a browser to authorize. Scheduled pipelines don't have browsers. I store the refresh token in Snowflake.
Martin Seifert
Strategy, engineering, privacy, modeling, visualization, analysis, ML, AI. Sprinkle some product ownership on top and you got a jack-of-all-trades decision-enabler 😎
Lakehouse
I migrated a Fivetran pipeline to dltHub for $0.65
One hour, five manual inputs, and $0.65 of tokens... enough to replace a daily Fivetran sync with a tested dltHub job
Infrastructure
I needed 2,110 municipal contacts. So I built a crawler that refuses to guess.
A public contact list sounds easy... until 2,110 websites, four languages, changing staff, and source evidence get involved. 😅
Infrastructure
Backing up Microsoft Planner with dlt and Azure Blob
Microsoft Planner has no native backup export, so I built a declarative dlt job that writes complete Graph snapshots to Azure Blob. 😎
Digital Analytics
My GTM container had 282 undocumented objects
I gave an agent a dependency graph to make it write notes on my GTM containers
Infrastructure
Your coding agent keeps a diary
Every opencode session leaves a trail in a local SQLite file. dlt turns it into analytics you actually read.
Infrastructure
dlt on a 4 GB pod: loading multi-GB datasets without the SIGKILL
Exit code 137 is dlt's way of saying "your RAM and I need to talk"
Visualization
Migrating Tableau dashboards: Streamlit code vs. Sigma with a parity gate
Same migration, opposite bets: rebuild as Streamlit code you own, or as Sigma workbooks behind a parity gate.
Lakehouse
Snowflake Iceberg in 2026: open format, now without the storage chores
Three Iceberg GAs in one week advancing the old tradeoff: open format without babysitting a bucket.
Lakehouse
MotherDuck Flights: pipelines an agent can fly, and why dlt belongs in the cockpit
MotherDuck shipped agent-native Python pipelines. The obvious thing to run inside one is dlt.
Infrastructure
OpenCode: a terminal coding agent without vendor lock‑in
Bring your own model, ditch the subscription.
Lakehouse
How I Stopped ❄️ Cortex Agents from Auto-Picking the Expensive Model
How to configure Cortex Agent models for all agents at once