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Tech's fancy word for shoving data into a system and praying it fits.
means The act of taking something in — whether it's food entering your body or raw data being pulled into a computer system.
from Straight from Latin ingestionem, built from ingerere — 'in-' (into) plus 'gerere' (to carry, to bring). The same 'gerere' root gives us 'gesture' and 'digest.' For centuries it stayed a medical and biological word, describing what mouths and stomachs do. Tech borrowed it later, treating databases like digestive systems: pipelines as throats, servers as stomachs, and your messy CSV file as the questionable lunch.
- etymology
- from latin for carrying food into the body
- pipeline role
- the unglamorous first step everyone underestimates
- failure point
- most data disasters start here, not in analysis
- not digestion
- ingestion just takes it in, cleanup is someone else's job