Andy Brownsword knows that sometimes, the only winning move is not to play:
Last time out we discussed blocking transformations, what they are, the impact of them, and touched on how to deal with them. In this post we’re going a step further to tackle one of them head on.
Here we’ll demonstrate the impact of blocking caused by the Sort transformation, and look at two options for solving this and slashing execution time.
Sorts aren’t the only blocking transformation that you should push back down to your source (if possible), but it is the most common example.