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Meet the Practitioners Behind Breakout Labs: Timo
A chance encounter in a Slack community turned into Breakout Labs' first consultant hire. Timo on his first year, and why patterns matter more than tools.
- team
- analytics engineering
Meet the Practitioners Behind Breakout Labs: Bijil
Teaching across the world. A story about Bijil, his presence in the classroom, the preparation behind good teaching, and why he keeps coming back to it.
- team
- teaching
- remote work
Meet the Practitioners Behind Breakout Labs: Gideon
Our first instructor, on being the person you call when the deadline is close and bandwidth is gone, and why we got lucky with him.
- team
- teaching
- reliability
Meet the Practitioners Behind Breakout Labs: Patrícia
Patrícia joined Breakout Labs in May 2026 and taught for four weeks straight. A story about wanting to "feel like a teacher again," and what it took to get there.
- team
- teaching
- enablement
Building a dbt project with AI: A Practical Walkthrough (Part 2)
In Part 2 of the series, we'll build metrics and a semantic layer on top of our models, connect to it via MCP (Model Context Protocol), and explore how AI agents can interact with our data and project natively.
- dbt
- ai
- analytics-engineering
Building a dbt project with AI: A Practical Walkthrough (Part 1)
AI-driven analytics engineering is here to stay, and the results are impressive. This blog post explores how tools like Claude Code can transform your dbt workflow, cutting hours of repetitive work and allowing you to focus on the big picture and architectural decisions.
- dbt
- ai
- analytics-engineering
DIRECTED JOINS in SQL
Today I learned about a SQL feature I hadn't seen before: DIRECTED JOINS. Snowflake quietly added it last month as a preview feature.
- snowflake
- sql
- analytics-engineering
Kicking off Breakout Labs
Kicking off Breakout Labs at the #DISummit in Stockholm
- breakout-labs
- events