Escaping the ETL Graveyard: How to Fix Fragile Data Pipelines
The sales dashboard is blank. Nobody knows why. The only person who built the pipeline left two years ago, and their documentation consists of three cryptic comments in the code.
Sound familiar?
Welcome to the ETL graveyard — where data pipelines go to haunt your business operations. It’s that collection of undocumented, fragile, ad-hoc processes that somehow keep your data flowing until they don’t. And when they break, you’re left playing digital archaeologist, trying to piece together what someone built in a rush three years ago.