What happened in the Meltano universe in the last four weeks? We shipped six releases, people built targets for Meltano “in one hour,” and dozens of new taps & targets made their way to the hub.
Let’s get to the details.
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What got shipped?
Busy as bees, we shipped six releases this time, four for the SDK with heavy community support and two for Meltano.
List of all releases
- Meltano v2.19.0 now allows to install plugins using “meltano install –schedule=my-schedule” and Mac-performant docker images.
- Meltano v2.18.0 now allows you do disable calls to the hub (for discovery) via a feature flag. It also adds a “meltano docs” command, opening up the documentation in your browser.
- SDK v.0.26.0 added support for parameters in string form inside URLs. That’s useful, for instance, for LinkedIn Ads and other API endpoints requiring parameters as strings in the URL.
- SDK v0.23.0, v0.24.0 and v0.25.0 added a lot of JSON payload-related helpers to the SDK, making it easier to build sophisticated API taps.
- Shipped with many community contributions from @space192 @acarter24 @longtomjr @msardana94 @flexponsive @DanielPDWalker @BuzzCutNorman @mkranna @DanilJr!
Community & Hub updates
This month we saw a TON of updates and additions to the hub; I’ll try to list most of them, but no guarantees. We went from 550 to over 600 connectors!
We added
- a new tap-mongodb based on the SDK,
- a tap-norwaycitybikeAPI
- a tap-criteo
- Updates tap-salesforce to a new version
- Bumped the version on the matatika utility
- Added a target-chromaDB
- Added a tap-pulumi-cloud (yes, we love pulumi!)
- A new tap-zoom
- A tap-veeqo
- A target-timeplus
- A tap-smoke-test
- A tap-jaffle-shop generator for real-looking fake data
- A tap-netsuite
- New and improved tap-linkedin-ads and tap-facebook-ads are coming our way as well
- And 52 new taps from Hotglue (way too many to name individually)
- …and many more!
Meltano Related Content
A lot is happening around Meltano on the web. We’re selecting a few pieces here. Be sure to check them out if they sound interesting.
- The team at Dagster wrote about Dagster & Meltano.
- Jove Zhong wrote about how he built a Meltano target within 1 hour.
- Francis Potter uses “Meltano as a magic shortcut” to pull GitLab data.
- We published an article on the importance of isolated test environments.
- We had a fantastic Office Hours session on LLMs and Meltano.
Keep on being Meltastic! And if we missed your contribution to the community, just hit us up on Slack, LinkedIn, or wherever.