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Data Engineering Is the Cache Invalidation Problem ft. Josh Wills

calendar_today October 9, 2026 domain motherduck

Josh Wills, creator of dbt-duckdb and former head of data engineering at Slack, on why the model barely matters, why agents still write ugly and expensive data pipelines, and why data engineering is still the cache invalidation problem.

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