January 2024 product docs updates

Hello from the dbt Docs team: @mirnawong1, @matthewshaver, @nghi-ly, and @runleonarun! First, we’d like to thank the 10 new community contributors to docs.getdbt.com 🙏 What a busy start to the year! We merged 110 PRs in January.

Here's how we improved the docs.getdbt.com experience:

• Added new hover behavior for images
• Added new expandables for FAQs
• Pruned outdated notices and snippets as part of the docs site maintenance

New content

January saw some great new content:

• New dbt Mesh FAQs page
• Beta launch of Explorer’s column-level lineage feature
• Developer blog posts:
  • More time coding, less time waiting: Mastering defer in dbt
  • Deprecation of dbt Server
  • From the community: Serverless, free-tier data stack with dlt + dbt core
• The Extrica team added docs for the dbt-extrica community adapter
• Semantic Layer: New conversion metrics docs and added the parameter fill_nulls_with to all metric types (launched the week of January 12, 2024)
• New dbt environment command and its flags for the dbt Cloud CLI

Updated content

January also saw some refreshed content, either aligning with new product features or requests from the community:

• Native support for partial parsing in dbt Cloud
• Updated guidance on using dots or underscores in the Best practice guide for models
• Updated PrivateLink for VCS docs
• Added a new job_runner role in our Enterprise project role permissions docs
• Added saved queries to Metricflow commands
• Removed as_text docs that were wildly outdated