More and more organizations are moving their ETL workloads to a Hadoop based ELT grid architecture. Hadoop`s inherit capabilities, especially it`s ability to do late binding addresses some of the key challenges with traditional ETL platforms. In this presentation, attendees will learn the key factors, considerations and lessons around ETL for Hadoop. Areas such as pros and cons for different extract and load strategies, best ways to batch data, buffering and compression considerations, leveraging HCatalog, data transformation, integration with existing data transformations, advantages of different ways of exchanging data and leveraging Hadoop as a data integration layer. This is an extremely popular presentation around ETL and Hadoop.