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16 Jul 2026
If you run database replication pipelines, you know the feeling: the data is ready, the warehouse is waiting, and yet your sync crawls along one record at a time while your SLA window shrinks. That bottleneck isn't your database and it isn't your warehouse. It's the wire between them.
09 Jul 2026
Faster pipelines were just the warm-up. Here's how we turned that speed into a number you can build a recovery plan around.This is the story of what it took to turn a set of performance wins into a documented, trustworthy Mean Time to Recovery, including the dead ends we ruled out along the way.
01 Jul 2026
At Meltano, we believe data integration shouldn't require a team of senior engineers. With Meltano's open-source framework, Meltano Cloud's intuitive GUI and the power of AI-assisted development through Claude Code, anyone can build a production-ready connector even on their first week on the job.
29 Jun 2026
Optimizing MySQL backfills is not just an exercise - it’s a reliability requirement. Learn how we overhauled the Pipelinewise MySQL connector to process billion-row datasets, cutting 24+ hour runtimes down to under an hour. We share our strategies for faster serialization, batch processing and more.
24 Jun 2026
Running pipelines shouldn't mean squinting at walls of raw text. With Meltano v4, structured logging and human-readable output come built in- so your team and the AI tools you rely on spends less time decoding logs and more time acting on them.
05 Jun 2026
The Meltano Datadog integration brings pipeline observability into the monitoring platform your team already trusts. Data pipelines power dashboards, reports, and business decisions — but when something goes wrong, teams often don't find out until someone asks why the numbers look wrong.
02 Jun 2026
Schedule-based Power BI refreshes fire at the clock, not when your data is ready so a slow pipeline means stale dashboards. Meltano Cloud now lets you trigger a Power BI semantic model refresh as a step inside your pipeline, so reports update the moment your data lands. Every time, in order.
28 May 2026
Every two weeks, the Meltano team opens the floor to talk new features, the roadmap, and (most importantly) how the community is actually building with Singer and Meltano in the wild. This session had a packed agenda: a responsible disclosure on a real-world GitHub Actions vulnerability, a community…
26 May 2026
If you're currently on Fivetran and wondering whether you're getting value for money, this post is for you. We built the Meltano Savings Calculator to answer a question data teams ask us constantly: "How much would we actually save if we switched?" Until now, that answer required a sales call, a spr…
21 May 2026
Will AI replace data engineers? It is the question every data leader, hiring manager, and engineering team is quietly debating right now. In Season 4 Episode 2 of the Data Matas podcast, host Aaron Phethean sits down with Julian, a software engineer with deep roots in cloud computing and analytics, …