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17 Sep 2026
Moving data into Microsoft SQL Server through Meltano just got a lot quicker. target-mssql now supports Arrow-based BATCH messages, and benchmarks show up to 24x faster loads compared to the previous row-by-row approach.
10 Sep 2026
For years, data platforms made the same bet: keep the work in the browser. A console, a connector catalog, a configuration wizard, a docs site open in the next tab. If it lived in the UI, anyone could do it. Your job as the analytics engineer was to translate between that interface and the pipeline …
04 Sep 2026
A failure alert usually tells you one thing: something broke. To find out what, you log in, hunt down the right pipeline in a list of twenty or thirty, and read through logs line by line. That's before you've even started the fix. Now the diagnosis beats you there. Melty AI writes up what failed and…
03 Sep 2026
Does Meltano reliably honor custom environment variable names, or does it silently fall back to defaults? Rather than assume it works-only to find out otherwise in production-we built a minimal pipeline to verify the behavior and inspected the actual runtime logs.
11 Aug 2026
A pipeline fails. Sales opened yesterday's dashboard before the morning meeting and the numbers haven't moved.Customer Success starts questioning whether they can trust the data. Meanwhile, the only person who knows what's actually broken is halfway through another piece of work.
04 Aug 2026
MotherDuck is now a supported data store in Meltano and it's built for more than convenience. Under the hood, it inherits a sync mode that turns hours-long loads into ones that finish while you're still on your coffee break, so you're not just skipping custom scripts, you're skipping the wait too.
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.