Talend Open Studio Cookbook

Primarily designed as a reference book, simple and effective exercises based upon genuine real-world tasks enable the developer to reduce the time to deliver the results. Presentation of the activities in a recipe format will enable the readers to grasp even the complex concepts with consummate ease. Talend Open Studio Cookbook is principally aimed at relative beginners and intermediate Talend Developers who have used the product to perform some simple integration tasks, possibly via a training course or beginner's tutorials.

Richard Daniel Barton

Rick is a freelance consultant who has specialized in data integration and ETL for the last 13 years, as part of an IT career spanning over 25 years. After gaining a degree in Computer Systems from Cardiff University Rick began his career as a firmware programmer before moving into Mainframe data processing and then into ETL tools in 1999.

He has provided technical consultancy to some of the UK's largest companies, including banks and telecommunications companies, and was a founding partner of a “Big Data” integration consultancy.

Four years ago he moved back into freelance development and has been working almost exclusively with Talend Open Studio and Talend Integration Suite, on multiple projects, of various sizes, in UK. It is on these projects that he has learned many of the lessons that can be found in this, his first book.