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Designing a "low-effort" ELT system, using stitch and dbt

Start Data Engineering

Intro A very common use case in data engineering is to build a ETL system for a data warehouse, to have data loaded in from multiple separate databases to enable data analysts/scientists to be able to run queries on this data, since the source databases are used by your applications and we do not want these analytic queries to affect our application (..)

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Exploring The Evolution And Adoption of Customer Data Platforms and Reverse ETL

Data Engineering Podcast

A natural outgrowth of that capability is the more recent growth of reverse ETL systems that use those analytics to feed back into the operational systems used to engage with the customer. In this episode Tejas Manohar and Rachel Bradley-Haas share the story of their own careers and experiences coinciding with these trends.

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Open Source Reverse ETL For Everyone With Grouparoo

Data Engineering Podcast

If you’re a data engineering podcast listener, you get credits worth $3000 on an annual subscription Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Brian Leonard about Grouparoo, an open source framework for managing your reverse ETL pipelines Interview Introduction How did you get involved in the area of data management?

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ETL Testing Process

Grouparoo

ETL testing can be challenging since most ETL systems process large volumes of heterogeneous data. However, establishing clear requirements from the start can make it easier for ETL testers to perform the required tests. Stages of the ETL Testing Process The ETL testing process can be broken down into 8 different stages.

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Reverse ETL to Fuel Future Actions with Data

Ascend.io

How to Fit Reverse ETL Into Your Data Architecture Once businesses comprehend the advantages of reverse ETL, the question often is whether you should buy a reverse ETL solution or use your data team to build one for your company. First, building your custom reverse ETL system is more expensive than you think.

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5 Reasons Why ETL Professionals Should Learn Hadoop

ProjectPro

Reason Two: Handle Big Data Efficiently The emergence of needs and tools of ETL proceeded the Big Data era. As data volumes continued to grow in the traditional ETL systems, it required a proportional increase in the people, skills, software and resources.

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What is a Data Pipeline?

Grouparoo

An ETL data pipeline extracts raw data from a source system, transforms it into a structure that can be processed by a target system, and loads the transformed data into the target, usually a database or data warehouse While the terms “data pipeline” and ETL are often used interchangeably, there are some key differences between the two.