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Show HN: Kiba, a lightweight Ruby ETL framework
- thibaut_barrere 12y agoThis is an early work to help Rubyists process data. A number of people (including me) are using it in production already. Feel free to ask questions :-)
- bshimmin 12y agoYou probably need to expand "ETL" on the homepage. It may well be a standard abbreviation in this particular problem domain, but I for one had no idea.
- thibaut_barrere 12y agoDefinitely - I just updated the page with at least a link to detail that. I will also add a direct link to this article http://thibautbarrere.com/2015/03/25/rubyists-are-you-doing-etl-unknowingly/ http://thibautbarrere.com/2015/03/25/rubyists-are-you-doing-.... Thanks!
- bshimmin 12y agoWow, that was quick!
- thibaut_barrere 12y agoJust a push to Github pages :-)
- mark_l_watson 12y agoLooks good to me. Amazing how much time many organizations need to spend on ETL. I have seen two teams using Pentaho Kettle which I think is a good tool, but a Ruby DSL seems like a better idea. I am not dissing on Java, but Ruby seems like a better fit as an ETL implementation language.
- thibaut_barrere 12y agoThanks! Indeed, I've been maintaining (on the long term) Ruby-based ETL jobs since 2006 (written in activewarehouse-etl at the time), and I've been fairly happy with the overall return on investment and quality that I could reach (e.g.: unit-testing on ETL transforms ftw!). Note that Kiba is (on purpose) JRuby compatible and that I will demonstrate how to call Java classes in that context for faster processing. Stay tuned :-)