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Everything you just said also applies to all ETL and workflow management tools as well. There's a level of complexity that's never going away.


Yes, Informatica was the one that came to mind.

We inherited some Informatica ETL workflows once at work. Nice at first glance with good logging, but peel back the surface a little bit and it was a dizzying level of hidden complexity. Some of this was business logic which was inherently complex, but it was so deeply buried in menus and abstractions with no easy diffing or version control...

Like the comment starter mentioned - who are these tools designed for?


They're designed for purchasing departments and VPs, unfortunately.




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