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Optimize Multi-Terabyte ETL Pipeline

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You are discussing a past pipeline optimization project and want to show how you approached a large-scale ETL bottleneck. The interviewer is looking for concrete decisions around distributed processing, query tuning, and how you verified that performance improved without breaking data correctness.

Question

Describe a time you had to optimize a slow-running ETL process for a multi-terabyte dataset.