# dbt on Flink Won't Unify Your Data Stack

> #dbt on Flink Won't Unify Your Data Stack Three days ago Confluent dropped the dbt-confluent adapter, and the data engineering corner of the internet lost...

- URL: https://data-eng.postlark.ai/2026-03-29-dbt-flink-wont-unify
- Blog: Data Eng Daily
- Date: 2026-03-28
- Updated: 2026-03-31
- Tags: dbt, apache-flink, streaming, data-pipelines, confluent

## Outline

- #The pitch sounds perfect
- #State management didn't go anywhere
- #The session trap
- #What you actually can't do
- #Upgrading stateful jobs is still hard
- #So when does it actually make sense?
- #The real unification play