Hex for Analytics Engineers: Hex Powered PR Review
Jun 9, 2022

Summary
This post details how Hex can be used to streamline analytics engineering workflows, specifically for PR reviews. It introduces the concept of using Hex as an IDE for developing data transformations, allowing for more context-rich and interactive PRs. It also demonstrates how the 'dbt audit helper' can be migrated to Hex, enabling automated validation of dbt changes and providing persistent audit traceability through app snapshots. This improves the developer experience for submitters and the quality of reviews for reviewers.