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Fivetran Blog
Company blog · fivetran.com/blog · on HN as georgewfraserdataprogramming
Fivetran Blog is the company blog at fivetran.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2013, 52 different Hacker News readers have linked it 110 times, most often “Data Warehouse Benchmark: Redshift, Snowflake, Azure, Presto, BigQuery”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-06-22
- Data Warehouse Benchmark: Redshift, Snowflake, Azure, Presto, BigQuery4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-09-10
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-09-29
- Fivetran Acquires Dbt Competitor Tobiko Data3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-03
- /careers2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-08-03
- For Data Warehouse Performance, One Big Table or Star Schema?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-04-10
- I Benchmarked Databricks Against My iPhone2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-07
- NRR Doesn't Matter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-07
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-13
- Cloud Data Warehouse Benchmark, updated for 20222 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-05
What Hacker News says?
tldr: hard stuff is hard and not fun to work on Why did AWS, a group probably fairly technical savy and a direct competitor to its vendor, take so long [1] to migrate from Oracle? Why does Google, as of today, have job openings for SAP in its Rev Rec division [2], and more widely in areas touching [3] “ SAP ERP domains (e.g. Finance, Revenue/Cost Management, Billing, Materials Management, Sourcing, Procurement and/o…
Comment linking /docs/transformations/dbt/data-models/quickbooks-data-model/quickbooks-source-model
on “What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)”Submitted Databricks is an RDBMS as a story · 148 points
HN discussionI assume Dan Luu was using the old “XMIN” method and not Logical Replication. https://fivetran.com/docs/connectors/databases/postgresql/tr...
Comment linking /docs/connectors/databases/postgresql/troubleshooting/xmin-frozen-alert
on “Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022)”Submitted Data Warehouse Benchmark: Redshift, Snowflake, Azure, Presto, BigQuery as a story · 93 points
HN discussionFIVETRAN ( https://www.fivetran.com)| OAKLAND, CA | FULL-TIME| ONSITE (remote during shelter-in-place) Fivetran replicates all applications, databases, events, and files into a high-performance data warehouse. Our data connectors free companies to focus on insights instead of fixing data leaks. Now more than ever, companies rely on data to get to critical decisions; Fivetran makes this happen. Good products for good…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted Fivetran to acquire Census as a story · 82 points
HN discussionFIVETRAN ( https://www.fivetran.com)| OAKLAND, CA | FULL-TIME| ONSITE (remote during shelter-in-place) Fivetran replicates all applications, databases, events, and files into a high-performance data warehouse. Our data connectors free companies to focus on insights instead of fixing data leaks. Now more than ever, companies rely on data to get to critical decisions; Fivetran makes this happen. Good products for good…
Comment linking /culture
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)”Submitted NRR Doesn't Matter as a story · 13 points
HN discussionFIVETRAN ( https://www.fivetran.com)| OAKLAND, CA | FULL-TIME| ONSITE (remote during shelter-in-place) Fivetran replicates all applications, databases, events, and files into a high-performance data warehouse. Our data connectors free companies to focus on insights instead of fixing data leaks. Now more than ever, companies rely on data to get to critical decisions; Fivetran makes this happen. Good products for good…
Comment linking /culture
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)”Submitted Kafka Is Not a Database as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThis article depicts a perfect world and links it to a solution which is fairly distant from that. I understand the wishful thinking of having a "magic box" for search infrastructure but as someone worked on web-scale search at Google for years I'd say the reality isn't that simple. 1. The real problem in embedding data lifecycle management is changing the embedding mode, which involves a migration process. You can'…
Comment linking /blog/unlock-ai-powered-search-with-fivetran-and-milvus
on “Vector databases are the wrong abstraction”Submitted Fivetran Acquires Dbt Competitor Tobiko Data as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFIVETRAN ( https://www.fivetran.com ) | OAKLAND, CA | FULL-TIME | ONSITE (remote during shelter-in-place) Fivetran replicates all applications, databases, events, and files into a high-performance data warehouse. Our data connectors free companies to focus on insights instead of fixing data leaks. Now more than ever, companies rely on data to get to critical decisions; Fivetran makes this happen. We recently announc…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”Submitted When to adopt a data lake–and when not to as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFIVETRAN ( https://www.fivetran.com)| OAKLAND, CA | FULL-TIME| ONSITE (remote during shelter-in-place) Fivetran replicates all applications, databases, events, and files into a high-performance data warehouse. Our data connectors free companies to focus on insights instead of fixing data leaks. Now more than ever, companies rely on data to get to critical decisions; Fivetran makes this happen. Good products for good…
Comment linking /culture
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)”Submitted Anthropic, Please Make a New Slack as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFivetran ( https://www.fivetran.com ) | OAKLAND, CA | FULL-TIME | ONSITE and REMOTE opportunities Fivetran replicates all applications, databases, events, and files into a high-performance data warehouse. Our data connectors free companies to focus on insights instead of fixing data leaks. Now more than ever, companies rely on data to get to critical decisions; Fivetran makes this happen. We raised our Series C last…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”Submitted Fivetran DBT to Merge as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFivetran has a destination for it: https://fivetran.com/docs/destinations/clickhouse
Comment linking /docs/destinations/clickhouse
on “A new JSON data type for ClickHouse”Submitted Fivetran Acquires Tobiko Data (SQLMesh, SQLGlot) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFIVETRAN ( https://www.fivetran.com)| OAKLAND, CA | FULL-TIME| ONSITE (remote during shelter-in-place) Fivetran replicates all applications, databases, events, and files into a high-performance data warehouse. Our data connectors free companies to focus on insights instead of fixing data leaks. Now more than ever, companies rely on data to get to critical decisions; Fivetran makes this happen. Our core values make u…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)”Submitted Why a monolithic data warehouse is the right choice for most organizations as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFivetran ( https://www.fivetran.com ) | OAKLAND, CA | FULL-TIME | ONSITE and REMOTE opportunities Fivetran replicates all applications, databases, events, and files into a high-performance data warehouse. Our data connectors free companies to focus on insights instead of fixing data leaks. Now more than ever, companies rely on data to get to critical decisions; Fivetran makes this happen. We raised our Series C last…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)”Submitted I Benchmarked Databricks Against My iPhone as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFivetran ( https://www.fivetran.com ) | OAKLAND, CA | FULL-TIME | ONSITE (remote during shelter-in-place) Fivetran replicates all applications, databases, events, and files into a high-performance data warehouse. Our data connectors free companies to focus on insights instead of fixing data leaks. Now more than ever, companies rely on data to get to critical decisions; Fivetran makes this happen. We raised our Serie…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”Submitted How fast is DuckDB really? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFIVETRAN ( https://www.fivetran.com ) | OAKLAND, CA | FULL-TIME | ONSITE (remote during shelter-in-place) Fivetran replicates all applications, databases, events, and files into a high-performance data warehouse. Our data connectors free companies to focus on insights instead of fixing data leaks. Now more than ever, companies rely on data to get to critical decisions; Fivetran makes this happen. We announced our Se…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)”Submitted Data pipeline challenges your engineers will have to solve as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy company uses them as a “shim” to ingest custom data sources into a data warehouse. It produces a really elegant separation of concerns, where the fiddly custom part is isolated in the lambda. I wrote up a blog post about how this works: https://fivetran.com/blog/serverless-etl-with-cloud-function...
Comment linking /blog/serverless-etl-with-cloud-functions
on “Ask HN: Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverless” architecture?”Submitted For Data Warehouse Performance, One Big Table or Star Schema? as a story · 3 points
HN discussion
