📅 2024-10-28 — Session: Configured cron jobs for automated ETL and scraping
🕒 18:00–18:30
🏷️ Labels: Cron Jobs, Automation, ETL, Scraping, Data Pipeline
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The goal of this session was to configure and finalize cron jobs for automating data scraping and ETL processes to ensure daily updates and maintain an efficient data pipeline.
Key Activities
- Configured cron jobs to automate the execution of data scraping and ETL scripts, focusing on daily updates of significant price changes.
- Finalized the setup for automated web scraping and ETL processing, including specific commands and scheduling recommendations.
- Developed a roadmap for enhancing the scraping and ETL pipeline, focusing on optimization and future readiness.
- Scheduled data workflow tasks to optimize and enhance processing logic, audits, and performance.
- Provided a step-by-step guide for setting up cron jobs for scraping commands, detailing syntax and explanations.
Achievements
- Successfully set up and configured cron jobs for automated data scraping and ETL processes.
- Established a comprehensive roadmap for future enhancements of the data pipeline.
Pending Tasks
- Implement the roadmap enhancements for the scraping and ETL pipeline, focusing on optimization and event sourcing.
- Monitor the performance of the newly configured cron jobs to ensure reliability and efficiency.