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2022 data buzzwords translated to their actual meaning​

  • ELT: “shift your cost center to your warehouse”
  • Modern Data Stack - “shift your cost center to your warehouse”
  • Zero ETL: “shift your cost center to your warehouse now with more lock in!”
  • Credits: “shift your costs to….variable”
  • No code: “shift to needing two tools for the same job”
  • Low code: “shift to coding normally”
  • Batch: “Business model for NYSE:SNOW”
  • Real-time: “somewhere between nano seconds and hours”
  • Data quality: “the thing we keep talking about and would like to get to someday”
  • Streaming SQL: “Vendor-specific mashups of various strategies for bolting notions of time variance into a language not designed for it”
  • Schemaless: “there is a schema, but we don’t know what it is”
  • Bonus alternative ELT definition: "we changed our schema and broke the data pipeline, but we can make the analysts deal with it"