When Macros Add Complexity Instead of Value — Roadmap Step & Resources
Recognizing when templating makes a project harder to understand
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Analytics Engineering (dbt & Data Warehousing)
Before this step
Study resources
- Google BigQuery Documentation (Article) — Official documentation for Google Cloud's BigQuery data warehouse. Background reading/viewing for: When Macros Add Complexity Instead of Value.
- dbt Documentation (Article) — Official documentation on Jinja templating and macros. Relevant to: When Macros Add Complexity Instead of Value.
Part of
- Macros and Jinja Templating — section
- Analytics Engineering (dbt & Data Warehousing) roadmap — the full learning path