Anyone Using Make as an ETL tool into a datalake?

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We are upgrading our data infrastructure and bringing on a data lake in the second half of the year. I’m looking into different middleware pipelines for data syncing into the lake, but was curious if anyone is using make to put data into a data lake for a large data infrastructure.

This is not the direction I’m leaning, but wanted to see if anyone was doing so. I’m hesitant for a few reasons.

  1. the make platform has been less reliable the last 6 months so makes me nervous for more core infrastructure to rely on it.
  2. A lot of opportunity for operation creep if the systems we’re syncing don’t support bulk upload.
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Hey Logan,

that would depend on the amount of data you are looking to sync, but plenty of us are using platforms like Airtable for data storage and Make to sync and process that data, yes.

And if the amount is large enough and worth it, you can look into enterprise plans and options to get priority support on top of everything to mitigate the reliability concerns.

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Thanks for the response,
We use systems like airtable as well, but I’m talking about a larger data infrastructure beyond a tool like airtable. i.e. snowflake/databricks/s3.

We are already enterprise customers as it stands now.