You have started your data journey. You know you need to somehow collect data from various sources and land them into a data warehouse or data lake of some sort. Right now you’re browsing tools and calculating costs - there’s one for extraction, another one for transformations, there’s an ETL tool. What if we told you there’s a better way?

Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) technology makes it easy for organizations to pull data from databases, applications, and other sources, and move it into a data lake. But companies pay for this convenience in many ways. ELT solutions can have a negative impact on data privacy, data quality, and data management.

Written in Python, Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow manager used to develop, schedule, and monitor workflows. Created by Airbnb, Apache Airflow is now being widely adopted by many large companies, including Google and Slack. Being a workflow management framework, Apache Airflow differs from other frameworks in that it does not require exact parent-child relationships. Instead, you only need to define parents between data flows, automatically organizing them into a DAG (directed acyclic graph).

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Extract, load, transform (ELT) technology is a type of data pipeline that ingests data from one or more sources, loads the data into its destination (typically a data lake), and then allows end-users to perform ad-hoc transformations on it as needed. ELT can perform mass extraction of all data types, including raw data, without the need to set up transformation rules and filters before data loading.

Transferring files between two or more machines is an essential part of the ETL (extract, transform, load) process. Of course, there are multiple ways to move data, including flat file databases. For example, you can physically copy the data onto a USB drive or send it to the recipient via email. But methods like these are far less efficient than sending data via FTP. So what is FTP exactly, and how do you use it to transfer files and data? Keep reading for all the answers.