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In the deck and on the website, I see ETL, ELT, and EL(T) but nothing that says what they mean. Maybe I am behind the times, but I wonder: are these something
by Stratoscope 6y ago
In the deck and on the website, I see ETL, ELT, and EL(T) but nothing that says what they mean.
Maybe I am behind the times, but I wonder: are these something that a typical technically savvy person would be expected to know, like CPU or GPU?
- jeanlaf 6y agoETL = Extract - Transform - Load ELT = Extract - Load - Transform (so data normalization happens mostly at the destination). Here's an article that explains the differences and why it's important: https://airbyte.io/articles/data-engineering-thoughts/why-the-future-of-etl-is-not-elt-but-el/ https://airbyte.io/articles/data-engineering-thoughts/why-th...
- Stratoscope 6y agoThanks! Interestingly, that page doesn't define the terms either, but your cheat sheet helped me understand it. I might suggest giving short definitions whenever possibly unfamiliar terms like these are used.