Reading the Impossible, Fifteen Years Later
From a winter afternoon in a Bonn university library to confirming my registration for Spartathlon 2026
Hi there! My name is Paulo and I am an analytics/data engineer and endurance runner based in Berlin. Welcome to my blog.
When I am not building data pipelines, you will find me training for my next endurance race. I write about both.
Currently preparing for Spartathlon 2026 and documenting the journey in my 246 series.
Top 10 Books Read in 2024
Selected quotes from what I considered were the best books I read/listened to in 2024.
Running the Transgrancanaria Classic Ultra
An account of unexpected challenges and forging unlikely friendships during the grueling trail ultramarathon across Gran Canaria
Working with dbt in VS Code
A brief description of features from CSV Rainbow and dbt Power User, both extensions for VS Code
Cleaning Up Deprecated Models using dbt in Azure Synapse
Use custom macros to remove deprecated tables and views from your target schema
Top 10 Books Read in 2023
Selected quotes from what I considered were the best books I read/listened to in 2023.
Pausing dbt Resources after Pipeline Retirement
A summary of three ideas on pausing dbt resources: leveraging the exclusion flag, disabling resources, and transforming models into analyses
Creating Date Dimensions using dbt in Azure Synapse: Custom Macros
A custom macro to create date dimensions when using the dbt-synapse adapter
Cool dbt Feature: Exposures
A brief introduction to exposures and why they should be in every dbt project