How IFCO Cut a 7-Hour dbt Job to 2 Hours 20 Minutes on Databricks
Data Engineering

How IFCO Cut a 7-Hour dbt Job to 2 Hours 20 Minutes on Databricks

IFCO reduced its core dbt job runtime by about 66% and daily compute costs by 58% by fixing incremental-write behaviour, inspecting actual execution plans, and splitting a large dbt graph into individual Databricks tasks—with model-level diagnostics and targeted recovery.

Oct 16, 2026 · 14 min read