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by unklefolk 1651 days ago
Of course, the flip side is that sometimes that initial step of:

> "We are doing a prototype on our new mapping product, we need to write a one-off script to pull in some map data."

... is just that - a one off script. And it can prove to be a lot quicker to write a one-off script than getting involved with an ETL framework. I am not arguing against ETL Frameworks (Airbyte etc). Just that over-engineering carries its own costs, just like under-engineering does.