Discord scales dbt for petabyte‑level analytics with custom engine tweaks
Discord rewrote dbt to handle petabytes of data and 100+ developers across 2,500+ models, cutting compile times from 20+ minutes to seconds. Their custom table aliasing, time‑based incremental runs, and automatic backfill detection let engineers work without stepping on each other's toes. This shows open‑source tools can be extended for true enterprise‑scale analytics.