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by mycelium 2779 days ago
I would highly highly recommend ETL as service, after adopting it recently. It substantially changes your relationship with your data sources in a really positive way. And frankly, ETL for common data sources is code that you just don't need to write.

I would say that you should pilot with a few ETL vendors. We currently use Fivetran, they're fine but we've had enough burps that I cannot cold recommend them over other vendors. I cannot for the life of me remember the details, but I think we went with them over Stitch for pricing reasons.

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I'm Fivetran's CEO and I just want you to know, whatever "burps" you experienced, these things keep me up at night and the whole team is always striving to make the pipeline "just work". The whole vision of our product is that you should be able to plug in and get a perfect mirror image of all your data sources in your data warehouse. Anytime we fall short of that it drives us crazy.
Do you have a forum or suggestions tool at all? Fivetran has been amazing for our new datawarehouse and we're very pleased with the service, but there are a few little (non-bug) things that would have made it even easier.
You can email me: fraser@fivetran.com