I was wondering what arch provides to folks using meltano. Is arch a hosted solution comparable to stitch? or is it something entirely different.

@Taylor Murphy (Arch) can probably answer than the best 🙂

Hey @haleemur_ali! Arch is a larger end-to-end data platform that uses Meltano under the hood. You can think of it as a friendly UI for your Meltano pipelines (plus integrated storage via postgres). We deploy Arch for customers who likely don’t have a data team or don’t have the resources to solve all of their data problems with their existing teams. We have a few folks that are going from Meltano to Arch as we can take your project and onboard it to the platform. Any Meltano connector (even private / custom ones) will work on Arch. Hope that helps! Let me know if you want to chat more about it.

Thanks @Taylor Murphy (Arch). I'm speaking at the next local pydata meet up about Meltano + Singer Spec, and wanted to understand more about arch so I could reflect it properly in my slides.

Oh exciting! Where is this meetup? We could likely send you a few Meltano stickers to pass out if you’re interested.

Yeah, I'd absolutely love that. I hope its not too late, but the meet up is this Thursday in Montreal.

On your slide, my only recommendations: • I’d say “most any Airbyte connector”. There may be a few that don’t run. • I think you want to link to stitchdata.com not stitch.io I don’t actually know if Stitch really lets you run custom ones now. They’ve been bought a couple of times (Talend then Qlik) and I’ve heard some horror stories of their support. • We do offer open source support plans for people that want to run their own infra but work with our team for some extra help • We do offer Arch on-premises as well, but you probably don’t need to mention that for a meetup talk

Thanks, I'll definitely update my content.

Can you DM me an address? We'll see if we can get you some stickers

Thanks Taylor 🤞

oh wow! overnight really is overnight. crazy

Hey @haleemur_ali I think @Stéphane Burwash was at that event too? Matatika might be the kind of drop in Stitch like solution you originally asked about. All based on a Meltano project with no lock in https://www.matatika.com/technology-open-source/

This is awesome. Thanks for highlighting.