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Articles on Data Leadership from from the executive team at Orchestra plus resources on dataleadership from around the ecosystem

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  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    Self-Healing ELT Pipelines | How we got AI to fix our data pipelines on S3 and BigQuery (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    The Context Gap | How to build Data Architecture like Open AI (opens the original)

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    substack noteRecently did panel with Joe Reis Simon Whiteley and the unstoppable Holly Smith at Databricks. We played this fun game called “Room 404: NOT FOUND” where we pick a topic we’d like banished forever and Joe picked the word “context”. We debate and the audience voteThe audience agreed with Joe, and decided to banish the word context to room 404Well why you ask? Because the definition of “Context” is too broad. What is it? Docs? Lineage? stuff in people’s heads?You will be p

  3. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    Real-Time dbt model alerting taught my something I did not expect (opens the original)

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    I’ve always wanted to get the metadata from a dbt run in real-time in a nice structured table. However for anyone that’s used dbt before, we all know that’s not how it works.Instead of getting a row saying a model started, which gets updated over time, dbt sends a synchronous query to the warehouse. The number of these that can run is known as threads. This means getting the logs of what happens requires you to send logs to a bucket, in chunks.This in turn necessitates a separate process to pars

  4. Issue · Sep 3, 2026

    AI’s Chokehold | How to build a Data Team without AI Burnout and the AI Bottleneck (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Sep 2, 2026

    AWS Acquires DuckLabs: A new future for DuckDB (opens the original)

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