John Lafleur

John Lafleur is the COO and Co-Founder of Airbyte.

From API Docs to Data Pipelines in Minutes: How Airbyte 1.0 Unlocks the Long Tail
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From API Docs to Data Pipelines in Minutes: How Airbyte 1.0 Unlocks the Long Tail

John Lafleur
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September 24, 2024
7 min read
How Airbyte 1.0 is Ready for Prime Time
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How Airbyte 1.0 is Ready for Prime Time

John Lafleur
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September 24, 2024
8 min read
Airbyte’s journey until 1.0
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Airbyte’s journey until 1.0

John Lafleur
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September 16, 2024
8 min
Announcing Airbyte’s tentaculous Hacktoberfest 2023 edition!
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Announcing Airbyte’s tentaculous Hacktoberfest 2023 edition!

John Lafleur
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October 1, 2023
2 min read
Announcing August Hackathon winners!
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Announcing August Hackathon winners!

John Lafleur
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September 15, 2023
2 min read
Why we transitioned from Discourse to GitHub Discussions
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Why we transitioned from Discourse to GitHub Discussions

John Lafleur
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July 14, 2023
3 min read
Announcing Airbyte 0.50: Checkpointing, Column Selection, and Schema Propagation
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Announcing Airbyte 0.50: Checkpointing, Column Selection, and Schema Propagation

John Lafleur
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June 8, 2023
4 min read
Introducing Our New Content Hub
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Introducing Our New Content Hub

John Lafleur
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May 30, 2023
2 min read
The State of Data 2023
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The State of Data 2023

John Lafleur
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May 25, 2023
5 min read
Better supporting our contributors and active users
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Better supporting our contributors and active users

John Lafleur
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April 26, 2023
4 min read
ETL vs ELT: The Key Differences
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ETL vs ELT: The Key Differences

John Lafleur
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March 7, 2023
8 min read
Free Tier isn’t Free: Why Developers Should Insist on Open Source
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Free Tier isn’t Free: Why Developers Should Insist on Open Source

John Lafleur
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January 31, 2023
8 min read
Why Airbyte Made Alpha and Beta Connectors Free
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Why Airbyte Made Alpha and Beta Connectors Free

John Lafleur
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January 26, 2023
4 min read
Introducing volume-based pricing
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Introducing volume-based pricing

John Lafleur
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August 3, 2022
3 min read
Leveling up the Airbyte Community with a Maintainer Program, a Content Hub & a Conference
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Leveling up the Airbyte Community with a Maintainer Program, a Content Hub & a Conference

John Lafleur
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April 4, 2022
5 min read
Upgrading our Discourse and Slack to Support Our Community Growth
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Upgrading our Discourse and Slack to Support Our Community Growth

John Lafleur
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April 4, 2022
4 min read
Orchestrate your Airbyte ELT Jobs with Dagster
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Orchestrate your Airbyte ELT Jobs with Dagster

John Lafleur
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February 10, 2022
3 min read
The Deck We Used to Raise our $150M Series-B
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The Deck We Used to Raise our $150M Series-B

John Lafleur
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January 12, 2022
15 min read
Announcing Prefect integration with Airbyte to automate ELT pipelines
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Announcing Prefect integration with Airbyte to automate ELT pipelines

John Lafleur
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December 10, 2021
3 min read
How Airbyte Raised Its Series-A Round 2 Months after Its Seed
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How Airbyte Raised Its Series-A Round 2 Months after Its Seed

John Lafleur
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June 8, 2021
14 min read
How “User Success” Helps Us Become the Most Active Slack Community
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How “User Success” Helps Us Become the Most Active Slack Community

John Lafleur
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April 27, 2021
How We Performed on Our Q1 OKRs, and The Goals for Q2
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How We Performed on Our Q1 OKRs, and The Goals for Q2

John Lafleur
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April 13, 2021
7 min read
Our Truth for 2021: Airbyte Just Works
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Our Truth for 2021: Airbyte Just Works

John Lafleur
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April 4, 2021
4 min read
The Deck We Used to Raise Our Seed with Accel in 13 Days
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The Deck We Used to Raise Our Seed with Accel in 13 Days

John Lafleur
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March 22, 2021
8 min read
February: a Month Of Stabilization For a New Acceleration Phase
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February: a Month Of Stabilization For a New Acceleration Phase

John Lafleur
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March 6, 2021
4 min read
How Open-source Can Disrupt Build vs. Buy Considerations
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How Open-source Can Disrupt Build vs. Buy Considerations

John Lafleur
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January 21, 2021
6 min read
How We Chose Our Logo and Mascot
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How We Chose Our Logo and Mascot

John Lafleur
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January 7, 2021
6 min read
Our OKRs for Q1 2021
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Our OKRs for Q1 2021

John Lafleur
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January 5, 2021
5 min read
Why the Future of ETL Is Not ELT, But EL(T)
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Why the Future of ETL Is Not ELT, But EL(T)

John Lafleur
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November 3, 2020
5 min read
v0.2.0: Build and Run Your Own Connectors
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v0.2.0: Build and Run Your Own Connectors

John Lafleur
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October 19, 2020
2 min read
The State of Open-Source Data Integration and ETL
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The State of Open-Source Data Integration and ETL

John Lafleur
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October 18, 2020
8 min read
Airbyte vs. Singer: Why Airbyte Is Not Built on Top of Singer
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Airbyte vs. Singer: Why Airbyte Is Not Built on Top of Singer

John Lafleur
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October 11, 2020
5 min read
What We Learned from Our Soft Launch and Why You Should Consider One
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What We Learned from Our Soft Launch and Why You Should Consider One

John Lafleur
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October 5, 2020
5 min read
How We Can Commoditize Data Integration Pipelines
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How We Can Commoditize Data Integration Pipelines

John Lafleur
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September 22, 2020
6 min read
What a Pre-PMF Startup Should Look Like
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What a Pre-PMF Startup Should Look Like

John Lafleur
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August 18, 2020
7 min read
Do NOT Measure Developers - Measure Projects
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Do NOT Measure Developers - Measure Projects

John Lafleur
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August 11, 2020
Engineering Efficiency Now the Biggest Challenge to Companies
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Engineering Efficiency Now the Biggest Challenge to Companies

John Lafleur
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August 11, 2020
How To Be a 20x Engineer (Instead of a 10x)
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How To Be a 20x Engineer (Instead of a 10x)

John Lafleur
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August 11, 2020
How to Become a Great Engineering Manager
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How to Become a Great Engineering Manager

John Lafleur
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August 11, 2020
How to Get Your Engineering Team Involved in Product Efforts
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How to Get Your Engineering Team Involved in Product Efforts

John Lafleur
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August 11, 2020
5 min read
How to Make Estimates Useful (Finally) to Developers
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How to Make Estimates Useful (Finally) to Developers

John Lafleur
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August 11, 2020
How to Make Other Developers Hate to Work with You
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How to Make Other Developers Hate to Work with You

John Lafleur
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August 11, 2020
How To Rethink Sprint Retrospectives To Shape A Better Culture
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How To Rethink Sprint Retrospectives To Shape A Better Culture

John Lafleur
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August 11, 2020
Open offices are in the best interest of executives, not companies
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Open offices are in the best interest of executives, not companies

John Lafleur
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August 11, 2020
The One Job You Need to Do to Be a Great Manager
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The One Job You Need to Do to Be a Great Manager

John Lafleur
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August 11, 2020
Top 12 Things That Destroy Developer Productivity
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Top 12 Things That Destroy Developer Productivity

John Lafleur
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August 11, 2020
Startups, Avoid Being Vitamins At All Costs
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Startups, Avoid Being Vitamins At All Costs

John Lafleur
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June 16, 2020
4 min read
How to Create Awareness with No Time to Create Content
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How to Create Awareness with No Time to Create Content

John Lafleur
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March 25, 2020
6 min read
How to Go from Idea to First Clients in 6 Weeks
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How to Go from Idea to First Clients in 6 Weeks

John Lafleur
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March 18, 2020
6 min read
How We Pivoted 3 times In The 1st Month of YC
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How We Pivoted 3 times In The 1st Month of YC

John Lafleur
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February 18, 2020
5 min read
How We Closed Our Pre-Seed Round in 2 Weeks
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How We Closed Our Pre-Seed Round in 2 Weeks

John Lafleur
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February 4, 2020
5 min read
How We Iterated on 10 Ideas in a Month
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How We Iterated on 10 Ideas in a Month

John Lafleur
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January 7, 2020