Future work
Congratulations, you have successfully built a business intelligence application, including ingesting the data, processing, and exploring both through SQL queries as well as a visual approach. Being the last project for this book, is important to reinforce a message that should always be kept in mind for future projects: technology is constantly evolving, and new features, services, and best practices emerge regularly, so it is important to maintain a mindset of continuous improvement and this project is not an exception. This project can be a starting point for a business intelligence application, but there are specific actions that can make it more robust and production-ready.
Automate the ETL pipeline
One of the key areas for future enhancement lies around automating the ETL pipeline, which currently runs on-demand. A robust business intelligence application should incorporate automation at the orchestration level to ensure timely and reliable data processing....