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Ditching Matillion for dbt on Databricks: One Engineer's Brutal Migration Story

Data teams everywhere clung to Matillion's drag-and-drop ETL like a security blanket. Then reality hit: scalability demands code-first pipelines. This migration flips the script.

theAIcatchup Apr 11, 2026 3 min read
Migration flowchart from Matillion ETL to dbt medallion layers on Databricks

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Medallion architecture + dbt models turn legacy ETL chaos into scalable, testable pipelines. 𝕏
  • Incremental loads and Delta tables slash costs while boosting data quality via built-in tests. 𝕏
  • This shift parallels CI/CD's code-first evolution—GUI ETL tools face obsolescence. 𝕏
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