ETL Pipeline
"Extract, Transform, Load" — a scheduled data pipeline that pulls data from a source, transforms it, and writes it to a destination (data warehouse, analytics DB). Silent ETL failures often go undetected for days without heartbeat monitoring.
Source
- AWS Docs — What is ETL?
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