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- Most active Slack community on data pipelines - Our 2nd community call on 05/05 - Community articles on using Airbyte

May 12, 2021
WeeklyBytes
Here are the community news and product updates of the past week.
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New destinations: MySQL (MSSQL and S3 are coming soon!). New sources: Quickbooks, Iterable, Zendesk Chat and Talk, Appsflyer,... We also made support for larger data sets more mature: better state management, throughput & reliability...
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This article describes how Airbyte's Slack community grew to 1,000 users and 115,000 messages in just 7 months, with a focus on user success.
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Kubernetes enables an infrastructural shift in making our architecture flexible, composable, and scalable, allowing us to explore a variety of futures for what the ideal Airbyte deployment could look like.
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Community Highlights
In May's community call, we shared our progress of the past month and the roadmap for May. Jins (CTO of AgriDigital) also shared with us how his team leverages Airbyte for his caching strategies, a very interesting approach.
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Nathan Nowack shares his experience on building a connector using Airbyte's first version of the CDK.
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A great article by our friends at Preset comparing Airbyte to Meltano. In the end, the Preset team ended up using Airbyte for its ease of use, containerized architecture, and velocity.
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This very interesting article relates the history of Intermix.io, but also of Snowflake and the reasons for its growth. An awesome read with a lot of gold nuggets on the forces that drives the data infrastructure industry.
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A great article by @SeattleDataGuy on the skills needed by data engineers. From Python/SQL as foundational skills, to ETL/ELT, data viz, distributed processing, and more!
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