Building a Heroku ETL pipeline can seem like a daunting task. The process seems complicated, and it's hard to know where to start. This post will show how easy it is to build an ETL pipeline with Heroku and Hadoop — and how Xplenty can help simplify the process.

Founded in 1991, CNC (Czech News Center) is one of the largest media companies in the Czech Republic. They offer dozens of print and online publications to the Czech market, including Blesk, Aha!, and E15. A commitment to journalistic integrity has enabled their growth, now reaching millions of readers. They are currently undergoing a vast digitalization process with the aim to become the fastest-growing and largest media house in the Czech Republic.

Data pipeline performance hinges on several important techniques, including algorithmic optimization and parallelization.

Knowing best practices for Amazon Web Services (AWS) data pipelines is essential for modern companies handling large datasets and requiring secure ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes. In this article, we discuss AWS data pipeline best practices to ensure top performance and streamlined processes — without complications that can impede the execution of data transfer.

Salesforce is one of the world’s most popular CRM (customer relationship management) software platforms, helping businesses of all sizes and industries beat their competitors and better serve their clients. But instead of keeping your Salesforce data inside the CRM platform itself, you can make better use of this information by moving it into a target data warehouse.

Enterprises are tapping and leveraging big data to get ahead of the competition. As Peter Sondergaard, ex-Executive Vice President at Gartner said: The problem with the combustion engine is that it does not scale well. As companies grow, the data platforms they previously relied on for analytics start to break apart.

Data pipelines are in high demand in today’s data-driven organizations. As critical elements in supplying trusted, curated, and usable data for end-to-end analytic and machine learning workflows, the role of data pipelines is becoming indispensable. To keep up, data pipelines are being vigorously reshaped with modern tools and techniques.

Cox Automotive is a large, global business. It’s part of Cox Enterprises, a media conglomerate with a strong position in the Fortune 500, and a leader in diversity. Cox also has a strong history of technological innovation, with its core cable television business serving as a leader in the growth and democratization of media over the last several decades.

From five-engineer startup to 200-engineer unicorn, we’ve remained focused on one goal: making business data as accessible as electricity. Only a few years ago,