Track · 2:24 · Liner note
Late Night Ingestion
Ingestion is the step that pulls data from source systems into your platform, and late-night ingestion means running those loads when the source systems are quietest.
After the last transaction closes, the real intake begins. Late Night Ingestion runs against quiet source systems, draining new rows without competing with anyone’s checkout or billing run. Nothing dramatic happens, which is the whole design.
What matters is the morning check: row counts reconcile, nothing is stuck, schema changes were caught. Put this on for the hour you spend designing that check, so the next night’s load is boring on purpose.