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jeanlaf on April 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The deck we used to raise our seed funding

ETL = Extract - Transform - Load ELT = Extract - Load - Transform (so data normalization happens mostly at the destination).

Here's an article that explains the differences and why it's important: https://airbyte.io/articles/data-engineering-thoughts/why-th...

Stratoscope on April 1, 2021 [–]

Thanks! Interestingly, that page doesn't define the terms either, but your cheat sheet helped me understand it.

I might suggest giving short definitions whenever possibly unfamiliar terms like these are used.

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