Respond to a freshness failure with the right dbt selection and communication path.
Incident A team is changing a source freshness alert on Stripe payments while finance waits for a number. The path you choose changes whether dbt can explain the result. Contain, declare, prove Good dbt moves narrow blast radius, declare dependencies, and prove assumptions with tests. Shortcut Patch the final SQL Traceable change Every decision should improve lineage or evidence. Step 1 stripe.payments is 9 hours stale and the revenue mart is due in 30 minutes. What do you do first? Step 2 Only payments is stale; orders and refunds are fresh. Which dbt selector is useful after the source catches…
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