DataJet – Fully managed Apache NiFi as a service. Visual Data flows without code

Re:DataJet – Fully managed Apache NiFi as a service. Visual ... by mooreds on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @10:13AM (#23019454)

That's cool! I looked at NiFi for a past company and it seemed pretty put together. IIRC, the UI felt a bit dated like Java Swing, but the capabilities were awesome.

That said, two worries:

* marketing this is going to be a bigger lift. Folks don't build data flows for fun, they use them to solve business problems. What business problems will this solve?

* "visual" programming claims always make me suspicious, because at some point you usually have to dive below the abstraction.

Anyway, best of luck!

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Re:DataJet – Fully managed Apache NiFi as a service. Visual ... by cpr on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @01:44PM (#23021976)

> "visual" programming claims always make me suspicious, because at some point you usually have to dive below the abstraction.

Yes, but if each node is a well-defined data transformation, visual flows are a great way to express overall processing.

I.e., it's not general visual programming, which is a hard problem.

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