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Show HN: Bender – Let's Standardize Serverless ETL

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Re: Show HN: Bender – Let's Standardize Serverless ETL

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ETL stands for Extract, Transform and Load. So this is a data pipeline framework. Nextdoor please put that in your blog post as I do not believe it is a very common acronym.

ETL as a term has been around for decades and is very well used and understood in pretty much all IT, data, software and enterprise scenarios.

Re: Show HN: Bender – Let's Standardize Serverless ETL

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It's an extremely common acronym in a small niche. So while you're right, sort of, it's still worth clarifying when posted to a more general site.

It’s not a small niche. Search any job board and ETL will show up in a large presentage of job posts and resumes related to software QA and data validations.

HTML does have the tag. How hard is it to do?

    ETL
Even once?

Re: Show HN: Bender – Let's Standardize Serverless ETL

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It is an extremely common acronym.

It's an extremely common acronym in a small niche. So while you're right, sort of, it's still worth clarifying when posted to a more general site.

It is the kind of acronym that is known by anyone who needs it, modulo those two random people somewhere in the world who just discovered today that they need it but haven't googled the problem yet.

Admittedly, it is also the sort of acronym that, when you don't know it, is really annoying in a headline.

Re: Show HN: Bender – Let's Standardize Serverless ETL

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ETL stands for Extract, Transform and Load. So this is a data pipeline framework. Nextdoor please put that in your blog post as I do not believe it is a very common acronym.

Thank you for pointing that out.

I would have myself made the mistakes of assuming the terms is ubiquitous and everyone already knows it. I have heard it used liberally at every job I've done in the last 15 years.

I would have termed it a "very very common acronym." Right up there with API.

But your post reminds me that not everyone's experiences are the same.

Re: Show HN: Bender – Let's Standardize Serverless ETL

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It’s not a small niche. Search any job board and ETL will show up in a large presentage of job posts and resumes related to software QA and data validations.

HTML does have the tag. How hard is it to do? ETL Even once?

I was not disagreeing with the recommendation. It’s almost always a good idea to spell out an acronym/initialization on first use.

Re: Show HN: Bender – Let's Standardize Serverless ETL

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Great work. I'm in the process of writing an ETL and while I don't think this will suite our needs (so unfortunately I need to keep writing) this article provides a lot of great detail that helped me see the process more clearly.

Interested in chatting about your ETL project more? We may be able to help.
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