[thenaturalist]

This is a welcome move. I might be wrong in my impression and am keen to hear how other users of the tool assess the situation at Airbyte, but I'm sad to say that the high hopes I had for the company 1-1.5 years back have rather dwindled than materialized.

I don't know what it is, some people bring up the crazy valuation, but it just strikes me that a for such a targeted use case their execution game was great initially, but by now when discussing integration tools they are receiving quite some critique with regards to speed, stability and configurability.

It sure seems to me their OSS offering has not received much love while their cloud product is not close to peer functionality (missing custom connectors being a huuuuge one as of two months ago). All the connectors in the world ain't worth much if the core platform to run them on isn't stable, slow or doesn't support all of a company's data sources, inevitably containing long tail ones not covered by the core team?

Am I being overly negative here?

I'd love to hear what others think.

[bebop]

Thank you for the feedback. Custom connectors are now available in Cloud! We are also actively working on improving all the points you raised, speed and stability in particular. A lot of this work is very much in the guts of the platform and does not often make for particularly flashy blog posts.

One more feature that I think is really interesting is the Connector Builder, which is a no code solution that works for many different API use cases. We at Airbyte hope that this makes it easier for folks to build out the custom connectors they might need.

[thenaturalist]

Hi, thanks for the reply, happy to hear that these foundational topics seem to get attention and that custom connectors are in the Cloud!