38
Documented failure drills shipped
6
Median facilitator response (hours)
11
Cities represented in last cohort
62%
Repeat partner teams
214
Office hours hosted (rolling year)
Signals before you scroll the catalogue
Do you teach a single orchestrator religion?
No. We map tradeoffs across Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, Luigi, and cloud-native schedulers so teams can sequence migrations honestly.
Are sessions only for senior engineers?
Foundations tracks welcome analysts moving into pipeline ownership; Advanced tracks assume comfort with SQL, Git, and basic cloud consoles.
How are refunds handled?
See the Refund & intake rules page for eligibility, timelines, and non-refundable items specific to live cohorts.
Is everything live?
Core labs are live with recordings for missed segments; some briefings are async by design to respect global time zones.
Rolling practicum hours
127
Hours of live pipeline critique delivered last quarter across Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, and warehouse tracks—no hidden “magic autopilot” modules.
Bronze-to-Silver Modeling Lab
Contract-first marts with reviewer-ready diffs.
Streaming Lakehouse Cutover
Dual-write drills with comms templates attached.
Pipeline choreography, fully annotated
Urbadan hosts small-group engineering studios in Singapore for teams who want warehouse and orchestration changes to feel legible—not heroic.
Artifacts you can reuse Monday morning
Every track ends with tangible templates: runbooks, alert copy decks, schema review agendas, and finance-friendly slot narratives tuned for APAC leadership rhythms.
Bronze-to-Silver Modeling Lab
Hands-on patterns for landing raw telemetry, enforcing contracts, and promoting datasets with observable quality gates.
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Airflow SLAs Without Firefighting
Design SLAs, lineage-aware retries, and pool tuning so nightly loads recover without pager storms.
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Dagster Assets for Cross-Team Clarity
Model pipelines as assets with explicit dependencies so analytics and ML consumers read the same graph.
→Rehearsal arc we repeat with every intake
Five beats, horizontal on wide screens, stacked on phones—never four pastel circles pretending to be “strategy.”
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Diagnose orchestration habits with anonymized DAG samples.
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Rehearse cutovers using tabletop timelines instead of slide decks.
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Publish runbooks product and finance teammates can skim.
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Instrument alerts with human sentences, not color codes alone.
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Graduate with artifacts pinned in your internal handbook.
Catalogue filters
Thirteen live tracks spanning orchestrators, warehouse tooling, and governance rituals. Adjust filters to narrow the grid—desktop shows sidebar, mobile stacks controls first.
Bronze-to-Silver Modeling Lab
Hands-on patterns for landing raw telemetry, enforcing contracts, and promoting datasets with observable quality gates.
Airflow SLAs Without Firefighting
Design SLAs, lineage-aware retries, and pool tuning so nightly loads recover without pager storms.
Dagster Assets for Cross-Team Clarity
Model pipelines as assets with explicit dependencies so analytics and ML consumers read the same graph.
Prefect Flows for Event-Driven Loads
Compose resilient flows with dynamic tasks, caching, and human-in-the-loop approvals for regulated batches.
Streaming Lakehouse Cutover Studio
Blend Kafka-style streams with Iceberg tables, focusing on idempotent writers and compaction windows.
Luigi Batch Hardening Clinic
Refactor long-running Luigi graphs with clearer targets, dependency visualization, and failure isolation.
dbt CI Pipelines for Warehouse Teams
Ship slim CI, defer syntax, and state-aware builds so pull requests stay fast even on wide tables.
GCP Dataform with Governance Guardrails
Author Dataform pipelines with assertions, row access policies, and BigQuery slot awareness baked in.
Azure Data Factory Orchestration Patterns
Chain ADF activities with meaningful monitoring, parameterized datasets, and controlled fan-out.
Contract Testing for ETL Interfaces
Apply Great Expectations-style checks plus producer-consumer contracts before promoting schemas.
Orchestrator Migration Readiness Sprint
Score legacy cron sprawl, inventory dependencies, and sequence a low-risk migration to a modern scheduler.
Warehouse Cost Attribution Workshop
Allocate warehouse spend to products using dbt exposures, query history, and finance-friendly dashboards.
Pipeline Docs as Onboarding Accelerators
Treat lineage diagrams, README templates, and incident notes as first-class artifacts for new hires.
Voices from recent studios
4.8 / 5 verified studio note
“The Bronze-to-Silver Modeling Lab forced us to name every assumption in our staging models. Our audit trail finally reads like a story instead of a pile of SQL files.”
“Airflow SLAs Without Firefighting reframed how we write pages. I still keep the capstone runbook pinned above my desk—not because incidents happen nightly, but because it reminds the team what calm looks like.”
“Prefect cohort was short, but the human-in-the-loop approvals lab mirrored how legal actually wants to sign batches.”
“Client in logistics: appreciated the honesty about hybrid orchestration costs; no magical autoscaler promises, just staged waves.”
“Streaming Lakehouse Cutover Studio was dense, and I would have liked one more office hour on compaction math—but the failure drills alone justified the time away from my backlog.”
Trusted by platform pods at Horizon Freight, Lighthouse Health, and Nimbus Billing for facilitator-led critiques. Internal pulse surveys after 2025 cohorts: 94% of squads said rituals felt sustainable—not extractive.
Insights desk
Browse essays
Slot Warmth: Budgeting Warehouse Minutes Without Blame
How we coach teams to narrate slot usage as a product metric instead of a scolding exercise.
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Lineage as an Onboarding Map, Not Wallpaper
Turning DAG graphs into guided tours for newcomers joining mid-quarter.
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Registration closes 30 June 2026 for Singapore-facilitated studios. Limited to 18 seats per wave so reviewers can read every artifact.