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ETL

Also: Data pipeline

Data is extracted from source systems, transformed and loaded into a target, usually on a schedule.

Classically this runs overnight as a batch. Modern variants load first and transform in the target, because compute there has become cheap.

The hard part is never copying, it is dealing with deviations: missing fields, changed formats, duplicate records.

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