Kettle

Dear Kettle fans, We have to keep thinking about ways to improve usability of our software.  Over the last year we’ve been knee-deep into hard-core API design work of Kettle and now it’s time to put usability back at the top of the agenda. One of the first things that hits you as a new user is [...]

Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) never was a real transactional database engine, and never pretended to be that. It was designed to handle large data volumes and slam a commit in between every couple of thousand rows to prevent the databases from ... [More] chocking on the logging problem. However, more and more people are using Kettle transformations [...] [Less]

One of the things I’ve been working on lately in Kettle / Pentaho Data Integration is the transparency of the performance monitoring. We don’t just need an API to get the step performance data out, but we also need to visualize this data in a simple way, something like this: The next steps will be to also [...]

One of the things that surprised me the most in 2007 was how much I disliked the Apple mini I bought from a software development viewpoint. The reasons for that included a wide variety of things, including a lousy keyboard (no | symbol for example) and a Java bug that caused a solid freeze [...]

‘Twas the night before GA when all through the house the devs where dropping keyboards and mice They went and grabbed themselves a few beers and said to each other: job well done, cheers buddy, cheers! “A piece of beauty it is, someone said”, while visions of promotions danced in their heads. Then all of a sudden someone shouted on some [...]

In the next couple of days, probably tomorrow, we’re going to release Pentaho Data Integration patch version 3.0.1.  It’s been only 3-4 weeks since the 3.0.0 release and already we’ve fixed over 80 smaller and larger issue and implemented a few new things too.  The amazing feedback to the v3 release has been absolutely fantastic. [...]

Dear Kettle friends, After months upon months of hard work the Kettle community is proud to announce that version 3.0.0 of Pentaho Data Integration is generally available. Here are the key changes in version 3.0 compared to version 2.5: Separation ... [More] of Data and metadata to reduce object creation and improve performance Faster flat file support including parallel reading [...] [Less]

Someone from the community pointed me to the new Llays Kettle chips and I actually did find them in the store, Jens Bleuel made a nice chocolate cake for the occasion and as you can see from the picture below, Rob Van Winden from company Red Dolphin brought his Ketel1 drink. (Alcoholic: the flammable kind) The [...]

DISCLAIMER: if you’re not up for yet another piece of OSX fan-mail, you can safely skip this blog post! OK, so with the help of a few Apple fans I finally managed to figure out how to type pipe (|) and tilde (~) symbols on my Mini-Mac.  After a while I even figured out that all [...]

DISCLAIMER: If you’re not ready for yet another OSX rant, you can safely skip this blog post OK so yesterday I did The Right Thing(tm) and I went out to buy an OSX box. I’m actually typing this blog post on it right now. The goal of the purchase was to fix a number [...]