r/ETL
13k members
r/ETL is a subreddit with 13k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses etl, pipeline, etl pipeline, data, and production, and they frequently recommend/review etl tool.
This subreddit is for discussions about ETL / pipelines / workflow systems / etc...
Popular Themes in r/ETL
#1
Advice Requests
: "What ETL mistake caused the biggest problem in a real project?"
11 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Data extraction tools that don't turn into a maintenance project"
6 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "I built an open-source Airbyte source for SAP HANA"
4 posts
#4
Ideas
: "Put a condition on any SQL query and get pinged in email, Slack, or Teams when it’s true"
2 posts
#5
Pain & Anger
: "What is the most frustrating "software disconnect" or manual data sync in your daily workflow?"
1 post
#6
Money Talk
: "$10k in cloud credits for startups to run data pipelines"
1 post
#7
Opportunities
: "[Hiring] Senior Manager, SQL Development (hands-on lead data engineer) — SQL Server / SSIS / T-SQL | Dallas, TX, on-site | Full-time"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/ETL
#1
Etl
: "What happens when an Etl job fails halfway through??"
16 posts
#2
Pipeline
: "help in building AWS Pipeline (100k records to be processed by an api)"
8 posts
#3
Etl Pipeline
: "Advice on Etl Pipeline for large and varied files"
6 posts
#4
Data
: "After 10 years working with Kafka, I built the Data tool I wanted"
3 posts
#5
Production
: "I have Written my Data Engineering Book which can make you Production Level Data Engineer and it's Free at 0$"
3 posts
#6
Data Pipeline
: "Anyone using agents for the full Data Pipeline lifecycle?"
3 posts
#7
Etl Pipelines
: "How do you people test business logic in Etl Pipelines?.."
3 posts
#8
Practices
2 posts
#9
Data Lineage
: "Engineering a cross-platform Data Lineage parser using strictly read-only, structure-only metadata APIs"
2 posts
#10
Large Data
: "help in building AWS pipeline (100k records to be processed by an api)"
2 posts
Products Discussed in r/ETL
Etl Tool
62 reviews
#1
Pentaho
4.5★ from 6 reviews
#2
Talend
4.3★ from 4 reviews
#3
Airflow
4.3★ from 3 reviews
Member Growth in r/ETL
Yearly
+4k members(35.7%)
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Last updated: October 5, 2026