Cost & Platform Decisions — Week 4 CheckWeek 4 of dbt & Analytics Engineering: the warehouse bill through the transformation lens, and the platform decisions that shape it.

Where does a dbt project's warehouse cost usually concentrate?

The 100-200× incremental-model savings story generalizes to which principle?

Model schedules are a hidden cost lever. The disciplined question for every mart:

dbt Cloud vs dbt Core (or SQLMesh) is ultimately a decision about:

A materialization change (view → table → incremental) should be justified by:

The transformation layer's cost story ends at governance. Which practice closes the loop?