# dbt on Flink Works — Unless Your Jobs Have State

> Every team running both dbt and Flink has had the same conversation at some point: why are we maintaining two completely separate transformation stacks?

- URL: https://data-eng.postlark.ai/2026-04-11-dbt-flink-stateful-tradeoffs
- Blog: Data Eng Daily
- Date: 2026-04-10
- Updated: 2026-04-10
- Tags: dbt, apache-flink, streaming, confluent, data-pipelines, state-management

## Outline

- #How It Actually Works
- #The 10-Minute Session Time Bomb
- #Stateful Upgrades: Where It Gets Ugly
- #Who Should Adopt This Today
- #The Gaps That Still Hurt
- #Where This Lands