Automating Data Pipelines: Moving away from Scripts and Excel
Download as PPTX, PDF0 likes33 views
The document discusses the limitations and risks associated with homegrown ETL solutions, emphasizing the challenges of manual processes and maintenance costs. It advocates for using the CloverDX data integration platform to automate data pipelines, enhance productivity, and ensure data quality. Case studies illustrate how CloverDX streamlines data ingestion and processing, offering robust features for enterprise data management.
Automating Data Pipelines: Moving away from Scripts and Excel
- 1. Automating Data Pipelines: Moving away from Scripts and Excel Kevin Scott Director of Sales Engineering
- 2. Homegrown ETL solutions are common Excel Excel, Python, SQL *-SQL, Java, C# Manual Process Scripts Custom Applications
- 3. Naive assessment of the task o “This is simple, we just need to…” Urgency o tight project deadline, no time for research/selection of third-party tools Exceptional Requirements o too challenging for a commercial off-the-shelf solution Exceptional Team o you have a highly skilled and available dev team eager to DIY Historical Precedent o you’ve always done it this way Motivation for choosing homegrown solutions
- 4. Feature Gaps o new end points, new DQ issues Lack of transparency o Logging, alerting, auditing, error reporting Age o Needs age-related overhaul, or has accumulated cruft Maintenance Costs o dev team has moved on (or you need the dev to move on…) o maintenance costs ripple beyond that actual maintenance task – what else could team be working on? Scaling Issues o can’t keep up with increased demand Risks of choosing homegrown solutions
- 5. Designed in-house to solve specific in-house data problems Use some combination of o Manual processes o Desktop tools o Scripts o Libraries o Programs o Data storage o Operating System Services Homegrown ETL Solutions
- 6. Using a Modern Data Integration Platform to properly automate your data pipelines, in a robust, scalable way, can eliminate these risks and save a significant amount of time.
- 7. In cloud — On premise — Hybrid CloverDX Data Integration Platform Automation of data workloads from A to Z One place for solving the mundane and the complex Productivity and trust for the enterprise Data self-service for everyone
- 8. CloverDX Data Integration Platform helps with.. Replacing legacy/home-grown tooling Data ingestion/onboarding Operational data and application integration Data migration Data quality Data for BI and reporting
- 10. Case Study Ingesting data from many sources for analysis
- 11. Fintech Vertical Business provides analysis services to credit unions Accept input files from many client institutions o Variable format o Variable quality Transform into standard format Assess quality Load into a warehouse for subsequent analysis Case Study Scenario
- 12. As a manual process?
- 14. As a scripted process?
- 16. Using the CloverDX Data Integration Platform…
- 17. Steps include: o Detecting arrival of client files to be ingested o Detecting format and layout of client files o Reading client files o Transforming/Mapping o Assessing quality o Loading to target o Detecting/Logging at every step End-to-end oversight of the ingest process
- 18. Steps include: o Detecting arrival of client files to be ingested o Detecting format and layout of client files o Reading client files o Transforming/Mapping o Assessing quality o Loading to target o Detecting/Logging at every step End-to-end oversight of the ingest process Detect data available for ingest Match with client-specific processing rules Read Transform Map Validate Load to warehouse Update ingestion log
- 19. Orchestrating the ingest process
- 20. Orchestrating the ingest process
- 21. Orchestrating the ingest process
- 22. Ingest process details Read, validate, transform, write, log error
- 23. Run ingest jobs automatically, unattended o Schedule jobs that look for files to onboard o Listen for arrival of files to onboard o Launch the onboarding process on-demand Record all ingest activity o Alerts when jobs fail o Logs of every execution o Graphical inspection of any run CloverDX automates the ingest process
- 24. Run ingest jobs automatically and unattended
- 25. (Re)run ingest jobs on demand
- 26. Continually monitor ingest jobs
- 27. Visually inspect ingest job failures
- 28. Eliminate risks of using homegrown Scripts and Excel Visually design your data jobs Automate Execution Instill confidence in operations Save a significant amount of time Use a Modern Data Integration Platform
- 29. More on automated data ingestion with CloverDX: www.cloverdx.com/solutions/data-ingest Request a CloverDX demo: www.cloverdx.com/demo Q&A www.cloverdx.com/webinars
Editor's Notes
- #14: You can certainly envision how to do this manually. Open your favorite FTP program to grab the files, copy them to your local workspace, open them, visually inspect them. Run the data import wizard in your SQLWorkbench. You can also envision all the reasons this is impractical. Huge data files. Too many files. How often the process needs to run.
- #16: You can probably also think about how to simplify the process and begin to automate. A shell script to pull the files from the FTP site. Choose your favorite animal from the O’reilly menagerie. scripting language for validation. SQL scripts to load data to the repository. Maybe add further efficiencies by more shell scripts to start hooking these steps together. Less time consuming, but still rather ad-hoc, still error prone, and still taking staff resources away from more valuable work. CloverETL will allow you to automate this data management process - to orchestrate, monitor and alert the entire workflow. Take people completely out of the loop, de-risking, removing sources of error, keeping logs of all activity and alerting the right people when errors occur and intervention is needed.