Building data pipelines is fun, but maintaining them is a nightmare. Informatica's IACS platform is disjointed and hard to navigate, and when pipelines fail, you're getting pager calls at 2 a.m. no matter how recently you built it.
I actually love that piece. Like, so building pipelines, the biggest thing I hate about that is when I have to do it in Informatica. For those of you that have not used Informatica, I encourage you to go out and get like a free license to IACS and check it out. But it is, my opinion is that it's a very disjointed platform and it's hard to navigate. But so I love the actual building pipelines when I can actually build the pipeline, when I could actually control a lot of those pieces and build in that resiliency. The thing that I hate about maintaining the pipelines is you can't anticipate everything that's ever gonna happen, right? And there's gonna be a 3:00 AM pager call for somebody that something blew up in a pipeline that you built, whether it's a week
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