Hey everyone 👋, I was reading up on ETL/ELT and how airbyte envisions EL(T) to be the future. Really interesting stuff! One question: One of the cons of ELT(and thereby a pro of ETL) that comes up is that ETL is a more secure approach to remove/mask data to protect the privacy of your clients. ETL essentially allows you to do that in the Transformation step before uploading to the destination, whereas with ELT, you’ll have to upload data first before removing/masking. Seemed like a valid point to me. What is your take on that? How could EL(T) tackle this problem? Also, where do most of Airbyte users push their data? Is it to a self-hosted storage, or to a cloud storage?

here are some related github issues you may want to follow on that topic: https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/1815#issuecomment-767196028 TLDR: I think we would agree that maybe we should have some EtL(T) approach with Airbyte!

Thanks, that helps!

I think we would agree that maybe we should have some EtL(T) approach with Airbyte!

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limited to privacy-related transformations as much as possible 🙂

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