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The scope of Meltano isn't limited to just data pipelines, though that is the first major part of it.

One thing that gets me really excited about it is the way we want to build version control in from the start. To give you an example of where that's really powerful - we have a bunch of dashboards in Looker. Right now, figuring out what Looks/Dashboards rely on a given field is very challenging. If I change a column in my extraction, right now I can fairly easily propagate it to my final transformed table (thanks to dbt!) and even to the LookML. But knowing what in Looker is going to change / break if I change the LookML is way harder.

But if everything was defined in code from extraction, loading, transformation, modeling, _and_ visualization, that'd be really powerful from my perspective.

The Meltano team has several user personas that they're looking at focusing on, data engineers are definitely one of them, but data analyst/BI users are as well, and we want the product to work well for the whole data team.