Apache NiFi is the heart of data ingestion for the entire platform and tremendously makes the platform reliable and useful for customers without crossing any SLAs.
Apache NiFi is praised for its ease of use, enabling fast pipeline development and real-time data handling, bridging on-premises and cloud interactions to enhance productivity. It supports ETL and ELT processes, reducing development time and costs. However, challenges exist with cloud-native claims, reliability, and scalability versus Spark. Integration with development tools, JSON processing, and CI/CD deployments face difficulties requiring improvement. The tool offers promising features but demands careful consideration of its limitations.
