https://omarcrosby.com/tags/pipelines/ Recent content in Pipelines on Omar Crosby https://omarcrosby.com/images/og.jpg https://omarcrosby.com/images/og.jpg Hugo en-us Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:38:36 -0400 https://omarcrosby.com/posts/etl-in-plain-language/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:38:36 -0400 https://omarcrosby.com/posts/etl-in-plain-language/ A jargon-free introduction to ETL — what Extract, Transform, and Load actually mean; the vocabulary (source system, staging area, warehouse, mart, DAG, batch vs streaming, ELT, CDC) defined without hand-waving; concrete examples of what an ETL process looks like; and how to decide when an organization actually needs one. https://omarcrosby.com/posts/etls-real-failure-mode-is-silent-not-slow/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:30:00 -0400 https://omarcrosby.com/posts/etls-real-failure-mode-is-silent-not-slow/ ETL's dominant failure mode isn't a slow pipeline — it's a green one that produces wrong data. Four invariants that separate 'finished' from 'correct.'