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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

AltexSoft

After trying all options existing on the market — from messaging systems to ETL tools — in-house data engineers decided to design a totally new solution for metrics monitoring and user activity tracking which would handle billions of messages a day. cloud data warehouses — for example, Snowflake , Google BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift.

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Moving Past ETL and ELT: Understanding the EtLT Approach

Ascend.io

These requirements are typically met by ETL tools, like Informatica, that include their own transform engines to “do the work” of cleaning, normalizing, and integrating the data as it is loaded into the data warehouse schema. Orchestration tools like Airflow are required to manage the flow across tools.

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What is ETL Pipeline? Process, Considerations, and Examples

ProjectPro

Cloud: Technology advancements, information security threats, faster internet speeds, and a push to prevent data loss have contributed to the move toward cloud-native storage and processing. The AWS Glue Data Catalog automatically loads your data and the associated metadata.

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The Spiritual Alignment of dbt + Airflow

dbt Developer Hub

From the Airflow side ​ A client has 100 data pipelines running via a cron job in a GCP (Google Cloud Platform) virtual machine, every day at 8am. In a Google Cloud Storage bucket. It was simple to set up, but then the conversation started flowing: “Where am I going to put logs?” Where can I view history in a table format?”

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The Evolution of Customer Data Modeling: From Static Profiles to Dynamic Customer 360

phData: Data Engineering

But with modern cloud storage solutions and clever techniques like log compaction (where obsolete entries are removed), this is becoming less and less of an issue. The benefits of log-based approaches often far outweigh the storage costs. But with the right tools and processes, these challenges are manageable.

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Modern Data Engineering

Towards Data Science

") Apache Airflow , for example, is not an ETL tool per se but it helps to organize our ETL pipelines into a nice visualization of dependency graphs (DAGs) to describe the relationships between tasks. Typical Airflow architecture includes a schduler based on metadata, executors, workers and tasks. Image by author.

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What is Azure Data Factory – Here’s Everything You Need to Know

Edureka

Publish: Transformed data is then published either back to on-premises sources like SQL Server or kept in cloud storage. This makes the data ready for consumption by BI tools, analytics applications, or other systems. It’s like a central hub that orchestrates how your data flows across your cloud environment.