Building a PSX Data Pipeline: How I get introduced to dbt

I've been in software development since 2017. Started as a .NET developer, transitioned into SDE-III, and for the past 4 years working as data engineer. Eight years in tech means I'm not new to building things but data engineering was a different world for me. More of a sql related task but different in its own uniqueness. Like a different world in itself. I knew dbt existed. I'd seen it in job descriptions. But I had no real idea what it actually did or why companies were treating it like a big