Step 4: Orchestrate Your Pipelines
If you have a working ingestion + transformation setup, you are probably running dbt on a schedule — either dbt Cloud’s built-in scheduler, a cron job, or manually. That works until it doesn’t. Cron does not retry. It does not alert you when upstream data is late. It does not let you re-run a single failed model without re-running everything. Orchestration is the layer that makes your pipelines reliable. You add it when cron becomes a liability. ...