Common Data Flow Patterns
📱 User Action → Database
User clicks "Buy"
→Mobile App
→REST API
→OLTP Database
→Order Created
📊 Operational → Analytics
OLTP Database
→Fivetran (Extract)
→Data Warehouse
→dbt (Transform)
→BI Dashboard
🤖 Data → ML Model
Data Lake (Raw)
→Feature Store
→ML Training
→Model Deployed
→API Predictions
🔍 External Data Integration
Census API
→Python Script
→Data Lake
→Join with Internal
→Analysis Ready