ETL Articles

  • Announcing Gobblin 0.7.0: Going Beyond Ingestion

    June 29, 2016

    About a year ago, we open sourced Gobblin, a universal data ingestion framework that aimed to solve data integration challenges faced by people working on big data problems. We have described how LinkedIn is using Gobblin to ingest data at massive scale from a variety of sources to HDFS, in many previous blog posts, publications, and talks. Today, we are very...

  • Bridging Batch and Streaming Data Ingestion with Gobblin

    September 28, 2015

    Genesis Less than a year ago, we introduced Gobblin, a unified ingestion framework, to the world of Big Data. Since then, we’ve shared ongoing progress through a talk at Hadoop Summit and a paper at VLDB. Today, we’re announcing the open source release of Gobblin 0.5.0, a big milestone that includes Apache Kafka integration. Our motivations for building Gobblin...

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    The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction

    December 16, 2013

    I joined LinkedIn about six years ago at a particularly interesting time. We were just beginning to run up against the limits of our monolithic, centralized database and needed to start the transition to a portfolio of specialized distributed systems. This has been an interesting experience: we built, deployed, and run to this day a distributed graph database, a...