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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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connector

/kə.ˈnɛk.tər/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A component marked 'maintained' until the source changes its API, after which it is marked 'a meeting'.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A reusable component that handles authentication, extraction, and protocol details for a specific source or destination system.

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See also
  • ingestionAccepting whatever a source sends, on the working theory that the schema it sent last week is the schema it will send today.
  • orchestrator sprawlThe state of having three tools to schedule jobs and a fourth, undocumented one to schedule the other three.
  • reverse etlSending the warehouse's answer back to the system that asked, so the two can be wrong in unison, at last.
  • schema driftThe source renamed a column and told no one, in the same spirit it once promised the contract was stable.