Re:Meltano: ELT for the DataOps era
by tayloramurphy on Monday March 01, 2021 @10:55AM
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This article[0] from Census is a good primer on the difference and what's driving it. But the TL;DR is that storage is cheap and it's easier to change SQL-based transformations using something like dbt[1] than to re-extract the data when the business logic changes.
[0] https://blog.getcensus.com/dbt-the-etl-elt-disrupter/ [1] https://www.getdbt.com/