Company
Date Published
Author
Andrei Tserakhau
Word count
1333
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The article discusses how Terraform can improve the data engineering experience by reshaping modern data stacks. It explains that a modern data stack consists of various tools for organizing, storing, and transforming data. Traditional ELT/ETL pipeline development faces challenges such as complexity, maintenance, scalability, long development cycles, limited visibility, hard-to-reproduce pipelines, and lack of version control. Terraform by HashiCorp is an open-source project that provides infrastructure-as-code and can implement change management of the modern data stack. The author demonstrates how to use Terraform to create a simple replication pipeline between Postgres and ClickHouse, making it easy to deploy and copy-run with different variable sets.