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Completely agree with your take, and as an engineer in a similar role, the post rubbed me the wrong way. I don't find ETL work soul-sucking, and I certainly don
by RhodesianHunter 8y ago
Completely agree with your take, and as an engineer in a similar role, the post rubbed me the wrong way. I don't find ETL work soul-sucking, and I certainly don't think that my colleagues or I are mediocre.
- ak39 8y ago“ETL” also involves data modeling. This is a thinking role beyond many people’s understanding. Quite often the “Thinkers” demand data but have very little understanding how to structure it when you get temporal aspects (slow changing dimensions etc), new types of data (rules for types) etc. These and more are quite often left/relegated to ETL guys as housekeeping. Except it isn’t. It’s architecting the house.
- Annatar 8y agoI was once accused by a Windows C++ programmer who just couldn't grok UNIX to be a "string cutter", but honestly, there is nothing so viscerally information technology as extract-transform-load. The irony of his accusation was that it was just one of many facets of things that I do and can/know how to do. ETL is really the core of IT by definition.