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Re:Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL by bazqux2 on Friday March 18, 2016 @05:35PM (#11315312)
I love ETL. I've worked with real Big Data (5PB+) and working on the data pipeline was my favorite part. The feeling you get when you rewrite a job to run 1000x faster so the company can make way more money.
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Re:Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL by Terr_ on Saturday March 19, 2016 @02:21AM (#11317566)
That implies the work is in a revenue-center or that you're at the rare company that isn't myopically focused on sales.
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Re:Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL by TheLogothete on Saturday March 19, 2016 @04:45AM (#11317814)
No, it doesn't. If you make an M/R job work 1000 times more efficiently you save money for the company. It doesn't matter if you are a profit center or a cost center.
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