What do we mean when we say data ingestion? Essentially it’s introducing data from new sources into an existing system or process.
The ingestion process usually requires a sequence of operations, from retrieving the data to parsing it, validating it, transforming and enriching it, through to loading and archiving.
The data is often characterized by the fact that it’s coming from third parties (often customers whose data we’re onboarding), and is of an unknown, inconsistent format and quality – and it’s this that can make ingesting that data challenging.
We need to build data ingestion pipelines that can perform all the steps needed to ingest the data, as well as accounting for inconsistencies and adapting to whatever new data comes in – and ideally doing it all automatically.
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