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Published inMay 2023
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Gláucia Esppenchutz
Gláucia Esppenchutz
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Gláucia Esppenchutz

Gláucia Esppenchutz is a data engineer with expertise in managing data pipelines and vast amounts of data using cloud and on-premises technologies. She worked in companies such as Globo, BMW Group, and Cloudera. Currently, she works at AiFi, specializing in the field of data operations for autonomous systems. She comes from the biomedical field and shifted her career ten years ago to chase the dream of working closely with technology and data. She is in constant contact with the open source community, mentoring people and helping to manage projects, and has collaborated with the Apache, PyLadies group, FreeCodeCamp, Udacity, and MentorColor communities.
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Applying reverse ETL

As the name suggests, reverse ETL takes data from a data warehouse and inserts it into a business application such as HubSpot or Salesforce. The reason behind this is to make data more operational and use business tools to bring more insights to data that is already in a format ready for analysis or analytical format.

This recipe will teach us how to architect a reverse ETL pipeline and about the commonly used tools.

Getting ready

There are no technical requirements for this recipe. However, it is encouraged to use a whiteboard or a notepad to take notes.

Here, we will work with a scenario where we are ingesting data from an e-learning platform. Imagine we received a request from the marketing department to better understand user actions on the platform using the Salesforce system.

The objective here will be to create a diagram showing the data flow process from a source of data to the Salesforce platform.

How to do it…

To make this...

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Data Ingestion with Python Cookbook
Published in: May 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837632602

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Gláucia Esppenchutz

Gláucia Esppenchutz is a data engineer with expertise in managing data pipelines and vast amounts of data using cloud and on-premises technologies. She worked in companies such as Globo, BMW Group, and Cloudera. Currently, she works at AiFi, specializing in the field of data operations for autonomous systems. She comes from the biomedical field and shifted her career ten years ago to chase the dream of working closely with technology and data. She is in constant contact with the open source community, mentoring people and helping to manage projects, and has collaborated with the Apache, PyLadies group, FreeCodeCamp, Udacity, and MentorColor communities.
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