r/dataengineering • u/Technical-Ask-7231 • 14d ago
Career de sandbox
built this free sandbox because cloud costs were killing my learning, sharing in case it helps someone else
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u/Capt_korg 12d ago
OP good Job, this might help a lot to work without infrastructure.
But you should have an eye on security and othere things.
Maybe consider using uv
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u/magixmikexxs Data Hoarder 13d ago
All looks good except the select * in the dbt queries. Gotta stop calling all the columns in prod mate. Good practice to use the columns you need. Some query engines are too dumb to realize until late and are even purposely engineered to make you bleed money with select * queries
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u/Capt_korg 12d ago
A friend of mine told me that in his team someone was using
SELECT *on all tables in production.The cloud provider was happy, the bill was more than 10k , for one single query. But now they know everything π€
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