A Beginner's Journey Building Their First ETL Pipeline with the GitHub API
By
Ibrahim Salami
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
A complete beginner shares their honest experience building their first ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipeline using the GitHub API. The article focuses on the journey of learning by doing, the pressure of public accountability, and the struggle to move beyond consuming theory into actually building something practical in data engineering.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledSuddenly this wasn't just a personal goal I could quietly abandon if things got hard. People were watching.
And that accountability, honestly, is part of why you're reading this right now.
But I couldn't bring myself to just consume theory. I needed to build something.
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