[HN Gopher] Airbyte API & Terraform Provider - available in open...
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       Airbyte API & Terraform Provider - available in open source
        
       Author : evantahler
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2023-08-03 19:43 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | thenaturalist wrote:
       | This is a welcome move. I might be wrong in my impression and am
       | keen to hear how other users of the tool assess the situation at
       | Airbyte, but I'm sad to say that the high hopes I had for the
       | company 1-1.5 years back have rather dwindled than materialized.
       | 
       | I don't know what it is, some people bring up the crazy
       | valuation, but it just strikes me that a for such a targeted use
       | case their execution game was great initially, but by now when
       | discussing integration tools they are receiving quite some
       | critique with regards to speed, stability and configurability.
       | 
       | It sure seems to me their OSS offering has not received much love
       | while their cloud product is not close to peer functionality
       | (missing custom connectors being a huuuuge one as of two months
       | ago). All the connectors in the world ain't worth much if the
       | core platform to run them on isn't stable, slow or doesn't
       | support all of a company's data sources, inevitably containing
       | long tail ones not covered by the core team?
       | 
       | Am I being overly negative here?
       | 
       | I'd love to hear what others think.
        
         | bebop wrote:
         | Thank you for the feedback. Custom connectors are now available
         | in Cloud! We are also actively working on improving all the
         | points you raised, speed and stability in particular. A lot of
         | this work is very much in the guts of the platform and does not
         | often make for particularly flashy blog posts.
         | 
         | One more feature that I think is really interesting is the
         | Connector Builder, which is a no code solution that works for
         | many different API use cases. We at Airbyte hope that this
         | makes it easier for folks to build out the custom connectors
         | they might need.
        
           | thenaturalist wrote:
           | Hi, thanks for the reply, happy to hear that these
           | foundational topics seem to get attention and that custom
           | connectors are in the Cloud!
        
       | ssddanbrown wrote:
       | When it says "available in open source", is that under the main
       | airbyte repo's licensing [1], hence primarily licensed under the
       | Elastic License v2 and therefore not typically considered open
       | source by many?
       | 
       | Airbyte has previous of advertising their offering as open source
       | while not really being as per the OSD[2]. This has been raised
       | with them previously but without response [3][4]. They've also
       | been extending their use of ELv2, recently moving many of their
       | existing MIT licensed connectors to be ELv2 [5].
       | 
       | I don't personally take issue with the choice of license here, I
       | respect the right to protect your work and choose a license that
       | works for you, I'm just against the misuse of open source
       | wording.
       | 
       | [1] https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/blob/master/LICENSE [2]
       | https://opensource.org/osd/ [3]
       | https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/9246 [4]
       | https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/17118 [5]
       | https://airbyte.com/blog/update-on-airbytes-license
        
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