Dbt has a new release out that has an rpc server that could open up better dagster integration than shelling out to dbt in a

Solid

... https://blog.fishtownanalytics.com/dbt-v0-14-0-better-serving-our-users-bf7cdbbcd5d2 https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/rpc

what’s the advantage of having a long-lived dbt process instead of just invoking it everytime?

At this point, probably not a lot, but directionally they are now talking about dbt as a platform for third party tooling

yup - I could see a dbt integration now being modeled as a dagster resource (either dbt cloud or a dbt rpc server)