Data integration is a key component of an organization’s technical strategy, yet historically the tools have been very expensive. Talend Open Studio is the world’s leading open source data integration product and has played a huge part in making open source data integration a popular choice for businesses worldwide.
This book is a welcome addition to the small but growing library of Talend Open Studio resources. From working with schemas to creating and validating test data, to scheduling your Talend code, you will get acquainted with the various Talend database handling techniques. Each recipe is designed to provide the key learning point in a short, simple and effective manner.
This comprehensive guide provides practical exercises that cover all areas of the Talend development lifecycle including development, testing, debugging and deployment. The book delivers design patterns, hints, tips, and advice in a series of short and focused exercises that can be approached as a reference for more seasoned developers or as a series of useful learning tutorials for the beginner.
The book covers the basics in terms of schema usage and mappings, along with dedicated sections that will allow you to get more from tMap, files, databases and XML.
Geared towards the whole lifecycle, the Talend Open Studio Cookbook shows readers great ways to handle everyday tasks, and provides an insight into all areas of a development cycle including coding, testing, and debugging of code to provide start-to-finish coverage of the product.
Anonymous
Posted Wed Feb 26 00:00:00 EST 2014
This book is a great collection of Talend recipes for the experienced ETL developer coming to Talend. The author doesn't waste time and pages describing the ETL foundations, data cycle, datawarehousing, but he focuses of Talend itself, its time-saving techniques and common pitfalls. The experienced TOS developer, howerer, woould say:"I wish I had the days I was a junior on Talend". But at the end of the day, the book would be useless to them, I'm afraid.
In fact, TOS is a powerful and highly-customizable tool suffering of a steep learning curve because of its deep link with Java. As a matter of fact, you cannot use Talend without at least a basic knowledge of Java itself. But this book provides a good foundation of which part of the language to focus on or start learning. Even if the book try to address the issue, the barrier against TOS, which requires at least a basic familiarity with Java language (and very often, much much more than a simple "familiarity) remain. At the end of the day, it's an absolute must-have for the new comer with a college-level knowledge of Java.
4 stars of 5 just because of the missing chapter about component creation. Given the intended audience, this is really a "missing chapter"
Anonymous
Posted Wed Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 2013
It is a comprehesive work on TOS, gives a good overview. The book goes in details mainly where it's really useful, its featured
components and solutions are the commonly most used ones. Screenshots and "How to do"-s are really helpful and bring solutions
"down on earth", they become easily reproducable during real development works, while tips are fitting common use cases,
reading them can cause sparing some bad experiences, try-and-fails, in other words: time.
The book is about the 5.2.3 version: it is already after the "big version change" which was done from 5.1 to 5.2 (really, it should be 6.0
instead of 5.2). On the other hand it is to be considered that the actually published fresh version is 5.4.1. For the book tries to show
most of the features it often does not go deep enough in the use cases. After some projects with Talend you can easily face problems
which you won't find a solution on in this book - thought there is one or more available in Talend's framework.
Generally the book is well scoped: Talend is often used by business power users, who are discovering new possibilities in self service
ETL. I recommend this book for users who are expecting descriptions which help them to get around in an unknown famework, -want a
quick and effective solution on their data management challenge. Reading the book, doing all the cases included is similar to get
through a training for a Talend OS certification - sure you don't get the cert with the book, but the knowledge.
Dr. Mátyás Miskolczi
Anonymous
Posted Fri Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2013
Well, I'm half way through the book and I want to stop and let you know that my efficiency is on the way up!
There is much to like about this training manual:
* Lots of day-to-day integration work is covered - just take the time to look at the table of contents!
* Most processes are shown that they can be accomplished in multiple ways, depending on requirements or style.
* There are not lots of pictures, but the recipes are step by step, so you don't need lots of pictures and you get more meat!
* There are references throughout the recipes to other parts of the book, so you wont get lost if you want to dive in anywhere to get quick answers to your specific problems.
* The book's layout is familiar, if you have been using Talend's own reference materials.
* The book comes with data, so you are using prepared material and not wasting time having to create your own.
* There are lots of hints and warnings. You will quickly see that much thought went into each exercise.
* If you know a little programming, but are not greatly familiar with Java, this book will prove to be very useful to you; not getting too deep, it provides just enough to get you thinking how to accomplish things you didn't know how to do at first.
* There is a strong emphasis on time-saving methods, like fully using the repository for schemas and queries, etc.
* I have seen very few, if any, typos. Lots of polish went on to get things right.
I am very please with this helpful book, and there is a great need for works like this as I look at the forums and see many of the same questions that keep coming up which are answered here.
This book will save me lots of time hunting down answers as new challenges arise! I think you will be very please to own this manual.
Overview
Data integration is a key component of an organization’s technical strategy, yet historically the tools have been very expensive. Talend Open Studio is the world’s leading open source data integration product and has played a huge part in making open source data integration a popular choice for businesses worldwide.
This book is a welcome addition to the small but growing library of Talend Open Studio resources. From working with schemas to creating and validating test data, to ...