sourcetodestination
Source-to-destination, in information technology, refers to the complete route a data item, message, or file takes from its origin (the source) to its final recipient (the destination) across systems, networks, and applications. The concept emphasizes the end-to-end flow, including generation, transfer, transformation if any, validation, and storage at or beyond the destination.
In data engineering and integration, source-to-destination describes pipelines that extract data from sources such as databases,
In networking and messaging, the term can refer to routing a message or packet from a source
Architectural components often include connectors or adapters, data formats, transfer protocols, and orchestration logic. Common patterns
Design considerations include data quality, governance, auditing, lineage, and compliance with privacy or sector regulations. Handling
Examples: a nightly ETL job that reads customer data from a transactional database and writes to a