The Data Hustle

Data Hustle #3: Knowledge Driven Development

Some musings on software 3.0

Jul 11 • 

Tony Zeljkovic

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June 2025

Data Hustle #2: Breaking Free from RBAC: Why Your Data Warehouse Needs Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

The rise of the ABAC!

Jun 27 • 

Tony Zeljkovic

1

Data Hustle #1: Finding Value in Optimizing Small Queries

How optimizing small queries in a snowflake+dbt setup can save on a large amount of costs.

Jun 22 • 

Tony Zeljkovic

July 2024

Using streams in python for highly resource efficient ingestion in ETL pipelines

how to not waste your memory, disk and cpu one step at a time.

Jul 5, 2024 • 

Tony Zeljkovic

June 2024

Becoming a 1.5X YAML engineer

How to use VScode plugins combined with JSON schemas to build your own YAML validators.

Jun 30, 2024 • 

Tony Zeljkovic

A deep dive into the snowflake python API

Developing data applications on your python data platform of choice

Jun 10, 2024 • 

Tony Zeljkovic

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May 2024

Data code model part II: Python Typing

Using python type constructs to structure your python code.

May 22, 2024 • 

Tony Zeljkovic

April 2024

Data Code Modelling: Abstract Base Classes

Building robust code for data engineering workflows.

Apr 28, 2024 • 

Tony Zeljkovic

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February 2024

Finding Stakeholder-Data Fit

The ever lasting quest

Feb 24, 2024 • 

Tony Zeljkovic

Setting up a dbt development environment with VScode Devcontainers

Using open source tooling.

Feb 24, 2024 • 

Tony Zeljkovic

Building custom DBT applications with DBT runner

Leveraging the DBT graph for governance

Feb 15, 2024 • 

Tony Zeljkovic