# A startup has nine fragile point-to-point pipelines on the canvas: three sources (Postgres, Stripe,

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Domain: Pipeline Design · Difficulty: medium

## Problem

A startup has nine fragile point-to-point pipelines on the canvas: three sources (Postgres, Stripe, Zendesk) each with three team-specific extracts. Every Postgres schema change breaks three pipelines and the on-call gets paged four times a week. Apply the beginner tier (three gaps, four roles, fan-in, layered architecture) to consolidate. Each source should land once into a shared raw zone, one curated transform should feed a shared warehouse, and every dashboard should read from the warehouse. The final canvas should have fewer nodes than it started with.

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