Friction

Switching reason · Reliability & bugs · Causes churn

Moved to Fivetran after connector bugs and tedious Airbyte operations

1 source thread · first seen 2022-12

Summary

The commenter switched most pipelines to Fivetran because even mature connectors had bugs they had to fix themselves. Airbyte is kept only for long-tail sources Fivetran does not cover.

Affects
data team operating Airbyte
Workaround
Keep Airbyte only for long-tail SaaS tools Fivetran lacks
Switched to or considered
Fivetran

Evidence

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“operating Airbyte was extremely tedious, even primetime connectors had bugs that I personally had to fix”

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