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Branded cover card: The Vector ETL: Offloading Document Chunking to dbt Python Models
Backend Architecture Vector Search

The Vector ETL: Offloading Document Chunking to dbt Python Models

Learn how to offload resource-heavy document chunking from application workers to your data warehouse using dbt Python models for RAG, ensuring lineage and scalability for AI pipelines.

Sep 16, 2026 · 16 min
Branded cover card: The Semantic Data Warehouse: Modeling Vector-Relational Hybrids with dbt and Snowflake
h3-index Vector Search

The Semantic Data Warehouse: Modeling Vector-Relational Hybrids with dbt and Snowflake

Stop treating vectors as sidecars. Learn how to model embeddings directly in Snowflake using dbt to optimize RAG performance, handle model drift, and manage semantic-relational joins at scale.

Sep 7, 2026 · 14 min
Branded cover card: The Silent Search Killer: Using dbt Tests to Guard Your Vector Ingestion Pipeline
Vector Search Data Engineering

The Silent Search Killer: Using dbt Tests to Guard Your Vector Ingestion Pipeline

Stop silent search degradation by implementing dbt macros to validate vector dimensions, L2 norms, and semantic drift across your ingestion pipelines.

Jul 14, 2026 · 31 min
An infrastructure diagram illustrating data flowing from an app server to a Kafka topic, landing in a raw zone, and transforming via dbt into clean search models.
Data Engineering Apache Kafka

Event-Driven Ingestion: Scaling Search Pipelines with Kafka and dbt

An enterprise data architecture tutorial focused on building a high-throughput search ingestion pipeline. We demonstrate how to break up transactional database dependencies by using Apache Kafka for immutable event routing, coupled with dbt incremental models to manage near-real-time data transformations smoothly at scale.

Jul 7, 2026 · 9 min