PULSEPOINT

Pulsepoint is an internet healthcare marketing company with a focus on activating health care providers. Pulsepoint was acquired by WebMD in June 2021... Pulsepoint needed to split the Data Management team into a Data Platform team and a Data Product Development team. This also meant splitting the code, since the entirety of the ETL pipeline was in one monolithic repository. The team had to develop a means of crossing repository boundaries to establish the pipeline steps (e.g.: Job A in repository 1 is dependent on Job B in repository 2). We also had to come to agreements on how to determine which team got which pieces of code... At Pulsepoint, we have a large number of data aggregation jobs that are coordinated with each other via Spotify's Luigi tool. Luigi has the user create a Python codebase that resolves which order to do jobs similar to how GNU Make actually works. A negative side effect of this is difficulty for humans to understand the order of jobs that will be run when the..

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