Why you should move your ETL stack to Modal
modal.com
Why you should move your ETL stack to Modal
My top issues with the foundations of the "modern data stack":
- Snowflake - you may only pay for what you use, but you pay through the nose for it. The cost is so high that in many cases it can exceed the cost of binders full of dbas.
- Fivetran - convenient, but they tried to triple my licensing cost last year, they have almost constant 15 minute o
r/dataengineering - Reddit
I think reverse ETL is amazing. Don't get me wrong. But for me, it's like, "Oh, if you want to pull stuff in from your warehouse, you should either push it to them or we’ve built it in directly now. So you can just boot up a CRM on top of Calixa. Just connect your Snowflake. You can even easily push your custom objects to us.” We feel we can give a... See more
Jan-Erik Asplund • Thomas Schiavone, co-founder and CEO of Calixa, on the PLG data pipeline
In today’s data world, there are so many options for an EL tool to avoid you developing your own extracting script and to help you gain a LOT of time.
Fivetran, Mage, and Airbyte to mention a few.
You don’t have to maintain custom scripts, these tools come with +300 connectors, basic scheduling, and error handling.
Jeremy • What I Learned After One Year of Building a Data Platform From Scratch
You need to be able to draw insight and to structure that information such that people can then act on it. What is doing that? Today, transformation tools like dbt are doing that, if you take the lens of the data team really owning everything end-to-end, but I think also applications that are able to plug into the data warehouse, consume this raw i... See more