Data Pipelines vs Data Platforms: What Growing Teams Actually Need
With companies growing, they begin to gather information in many locations than they can handle. There are analytics dashboards, CRMs, applications, websites, IoT devices, and interactions with customers, which result in the creation of valuable information. However, it is easy to get lost in all that information to make something useful. It is there that it is relevant to have a sense of the distinction between data pipelines and data platforms. Data engineering services are used by many teams to create the appropriate structure without time and financial wastage. What Is a Data Pipeline? A data pipeline is a simple, focused process that moves data from one place to another. Think of it as a transportation system for data. A pipeline can: Extract data from one or more sources Transform it into a cleaner or more usable format Load it into a destination like a database or warehouse Pipelines are usually built for specific needs, for example: Moving sales data from a CRM into a wa...