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December 2020

Kafka Is Not a Database

It's important to understand the uses and abuses of streaming infrastructure. Apache Kafka is a message broker that has rapidly grown in popularity in the last few years. Message brokers have been around for a long time; they're a type of datastore specialized for "buffering" messages between producer and consumer systems. Kafka has become popular because it's open-source and capable of scaling to very large numbers of messages.

CaliberMind Onboards Customer Data With Fivetran

With automated data integration, CaliberMind uncovers data insights for customers. As a Customer Data Platform (CDP), CaliberMind delivers data-driven insights to its customers. To do so, it must connect to its customers’ data sources, extract, process and transform the data, run it through specially designed analytic models, and, finally, present data back to the customer as insights. CaliberMind uses Fivetran to offload the task of ingesting data from its customers’ applications.

What Is a Data Pipeline?

A data pipeline is a series of actions that combine data from multiple sources for analysis or visualization. In today’s business landscape, making smarter decisions faster is a critical competitive advantage. Companies desire their employees to make data-driven decisions, but harnessing timely insights from your company’s data can seem like a headache-inducing challenge.

What are ETL tools?

Thinking of building out an ETL process or refining your current one? Read more to learn about how ETL tools give you time to focus on building data models. ETL stands for extract-transform-load, and is commonly used when referring to the process of data integration. Extract refers to pulling data from a particular data source. Transforms are used to make that data into a processable format. Load is the final step to drop the data into the designated target.

Achieve Pin-Point Historical Analysis of Your Salesforce Data

Want to look at how data has changed over time? Simply enable history mode, a Fivetran feature that data analysts can turn on for specific tables to analyze historical data. The feature achieves Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimensions (Type 2 SCD), meaning a new timestamped row is added for every change made to a column. We launched history mode for Salesforce in May and have been delighted with the response.