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In the deck and on the website, I see ETL, ELT, and EL(T) but nothing that says what they mean.

Maybe I am behind the times, but I wonder: are these something that a typical technically savvy person would be expected to know, like CPU or GPU?



ETL = Extract - Transform - Load ELT = Extract - Load - Transform (so data normalization happens mostly at the destination).

Here's an article that explains the differences and why it's important: https://airbyte.io/articles/data-engineering-thoughts/why-th...


Thanks! Interestingly, that page doesn't define the terms either, but your cheat sheet helped me understand it.

I might suggest giving short definitions whenever possibly unfamiliar terms like these are used.




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