Company blog of Hightouch, a reverse ETL vendor, on data activation, warehouses as customer data platforms and workflow tools like Airflow alternatives.
HN commenters link Hightouch as one of the two main reverse ETL tools, alongside Census, for moving warehouse data into business apps; one posts a job opening.
Hightouch | Various Roles | San Francisco | Remote or On-site | https://hightouch.io/
Hightouch provides everything data teams need to put data into action by moving it from your warehouse to the tools your business needs and has become the standard for Reverse ETL.
Hightouch was founded by early engineers at Segment, who saw that the future of data and insights revolves around the data warehouse. We’re backed by leading investors such as Amplify Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Afore Capital, with a total of 14.2M raised.
Backend Engineer, Platform (https://boards.greenhouse.io/hightouch/jobs/4005814004)
Senior Backend Engineer (https://boards.greenhouse.io/hightouch/jobs/4005835004)
Senior Product Engineer (https://boards.greenhouse.io/hightouch/jobs/4008092004)
If you're interested in any of these roles, please email founders@hightouch.io or call/text (586) 569-1759.
Hightouch | Various Roles | San Francisco | Remote or On-site | https://hightouch.io/
Hightouch provides everything data teams need to put data into action by moving it from your warehouse to the tools your business needs and has become the standard for Reverse ETL.
Hightouch was founded by early engineers at Segment, who saw that the future of data and insights revolves around the data warehouse. We’re backed by leading investors such as Amplify Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Afore Capital, with a total of 14.2M raised.
Senior Backend Engineer (https://boards.greenhouse.io/hightouch/jobs/4005835004)
If you're interested in any of these roles, please email founders@hightouch.io or call/text.
Congrats! We at Hightouch [0] ("reverse ETL") are excited to see Airbyte here on HN. We've been following Michel & John for a while now since the YC days, and from the outside, it seems like they've been consistently shipping incredibly quickly ever sinec the open-source project launch.
@mtricot -- You mention that a big value prop of Airbyte is providing an interface for building custom connectors. Have there been interesting learnings on designing an ideal "interface" to provide developers? How does the interface you provide compare to that of Fivetran's Functions offering [1]?
[0]: https://hightouch.io
[1]: https://fivetran.com/docs/functions
Great question! We have a whole page about this here (https://hightouch.io/blog/hightouch-vs-census/).
But the TLDR is that Hightouch has more developer focused features (like a live debugger, alerting, version control with Git, and more here: https://hightouch.io/data-features/), a dedicated UI for business users to visually filter models (called Hightouch Audiences), more transparent pricing, as well as more integrations (70+) that are also deeper and customized for each tool.
Parent didn't chose the best starting place to illustrate.
Typically, reverse ETL starts with "all of my data is already in an EDW" and goes to "I want to push it to my various app systems."
Canonical example: pushing system of record information to Salesforce to speed and enrich the sales cycle.
https://hightouch.io/blog/reverse-etl/
Hightouch user here. HT actually has a lot of that - git integration [0], visual segmentation [1].
Not sure about self-hosting though. Open-source is cool, will check it out.
[0]: https://hightouch.io/docs/integrations/git-sync/
[1]: https://hightouch.io/docs/hightouch-audiences/overview/