Your question is Incremental Loads with dbt State. Take a moment with it on the right.
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Explain how you manage state and handle incremental data loads using modern data transformation tools like dbt.
Discuss how you choose an incremental strategy, track the processing boundary, make reruns idempotent, and handle late-arriving or updated records. Include the role of dbt configurations, warehouse metadata, orchestration, testing, backfills, and observability.