[du] add backoff for duckdb connections

docs/dagster-university/pages/dagster-essentials/lesson-4/coding-practice-taxi-zones-asset.md

@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ def taxi_zones() -> None:
         );
     """
 
-    conn = duckdb.connect(os.getenv("DUCKDB_DATABASE"))
+    conn = backoff(
+        fn=duckdb.connect,
+        retry_on=(RuntimeError, duckdb.IOException),
+        kwargs={
+            "database": os.getenv("DUCKDB_DATABASE"),
+        },
+        max_retries=10,
+    )
     conn.execute(query)
 ```

docs/dagster-university/pages/dagster-essentials/lesson-4/coding-practice-trips-by-week-asset.md

@@ -62,12 +62,20 @@ from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from . import constants
 
 import pandas as pd
+from dagster._utils.backoff import backoff
 
 @asset(
     deps=["taxi_trips"]
 )
 def trips_by_week() -> None:
-    conn = duckdb.connect(os.getenv("DUCKDB_DATABASE"))
+    conn = backoff(
+        fn=duckdb.connect,
+        retry_on=(RuntimeError, duckdb.IOException),
+        kwargs={
+            "database": os.getenv("DUCKDB_DATABASE"),
+        },
+        max_retries=10,
+    )
 
     current_date = datetime.strptime("2023-03-01", constants.DATE_FORMAT)
     end_date = datetime.strptime("2023-04-01", constants.DATE_FORMAT)

docs/dagster-university/pages/dagster-essentials/lesson-4/loading-data-into-a-database.md

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Now that you have a query that produces an asset, let’s use Dagster to manage
    ```python
    import duckdb
    import os
+   from dagster._utils.backoff import backoff
    ```
 
 2. Copy and paste the code below into the bottom of the `trips.py` file. Note how this code looks similar to the asset definition code for the `taxi_trips_file` and the `taxi_zones` assets:
@@ -42,7 +43,14 @@ Now that you have a query that produces an asset, let’s use Dagster to manage
            );
        """
 
-       conn = duckdb.connect(os.getenv("DUCKDB_DATABASE"))
+       conn = backoff(
+           fn=duckdb.connect,
+           retry_on=(RuntimeError, duckdb.IOException),
+           kwargs={
+               "database": os.getenv("DUCKDB_DATABASE"),
+           },
+           max_retries=10,
+       )
        conn.execute(query)
    ```
 
@@ -54,7 +62,7 @@ Now that you have a query that produces an asset, let’s use Dagster to manage
 
    3. Next, a variable named `query` is created. This variable contains a SQL query that creates a table named `trips`, which sources its data from the `data/raw/taxi_trips_2023-03.parquet` file. This is the file created by the `taxi_trips_file` asset.
 
-   4. A variable named `conn` is created, which defines the connection to the DuckDB database in the project. To do this, it uses the `.connect` method from the `duckdb` library, passing in the `DUCKDB_DATABASE` environment variable to tell DuckDB where the database is located.
+   4. A variable named `conn` is created, which defines the connection to the DuckDB database in the project. To do this, we first wrap everything with the Dagster utility function `backoff`. Using the backoff function ensures that multiple assets can use DuckDB safely without locking resources. The backoff function takes in the function we want to call (in this case the `.connect` method from the `duckdb` library), any errors to retry on (`RuntimeError` and `duckdb.IOException`), the max number of retries, and finally, the arguments to supply to the `.connect` DuckDB method. Here we are passing in the `DUCKDB_DATABASE` environment variable to tell DuckDB where the database is located.
 
       The `DUCKDB_DATABASE` environment variable, sourced from your project’s `.env` file, resolves to `data/staging/data.duckdb`. **Note**: We set up this file in Lesson 2 - refer to this lesson if you need a refresher. If this file isn’t set up correctly, the materialization will result in an error.
 

docs/dagster-university/pages/dagster-essentials/lesson-6/setting-up-a-database-resource.md

@@ -14,7 +14,14 @@ Throughout this module, you’ve used DuckDB to store and transform your data. E
 )
 def taxi_trips() -> None:
     ...
-    conn = duckdb.connect(os.getenv("DUCKDB_DATABASE"))
+    conn = backoff(
+        fn=duckdb.connect,
+        retry_on=(RuntimeError, duckdb.IOException),
+        kwargs={
+            "database": os.getenv("DUCKDB_DATABASE"),
+        },
+        max_retries=10,
+    )
     ...
 ```
 

docs/dagster-university/pages/dagster-essentials/lesson-6/using-resources-in-assets.md

@@ -48,7 +48,14 @@ def taxi_trips() -> None:
         );
     """
 
-    conn = duckdb.connect(os.getenv("DUCKDB_DATABASE"))
+    conn = backoff(
+        fn=duckdb.connect,
+        retry_on=(RuntimeError, duckdb.IOException),
+        kwargs={
+            "database": os.getenv("DUCKDB_DATABASE"),
+        },
+        max_retries=10,
+    )
     conn.execute(query)
 ```
 
@@ -100,7 +107,14 @@ To refactor `taxi_trips` to use the `database` resource, we had to:
 3. Replace the lines that connect to DuckDB and execute a query:
 
    ```python
-   conn = duckdb.connect(os.getenv("DUCKDB_DATABASE"))
+   conn = backoff(
+       fn=duckdb.connect,
+       retry_on=(RuntimeError, duckdb.IOException),
+       kwargs={
+           "database": os.getenv("DUCKDB_DATABASE"),
+       },
+       max_retries=10,
+   )
    conn.execute(query)
    ```
 
@@ -111,6 +125,8 @@ To refactor `taxi_trips` to use the `database` resource, we had to:
        conn.execute(query)
    ```
 
+   Notice that we no longer need to use the `backoff` function. The Dagster `DuckDBResource` handles this functionality for us.
+
 ---
 
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