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Orchestrating Nanochat: Building the Tokenizer

December 3, 2025

Orchestrating Nanochat: Building the Tokenizer

Every great model starts with great data. This first part walks through how to structure ingestion with Dagster, prepare your text corpus, and build a tokenizer that shapes how your model understands the world.

Dennis Hume

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November 17, 2025

When (and When Not) to Optimize Data Pipelines

Engineers often optimize the wrong parts of their pipelines, here's a profiling-first framework to identify real bottlenecks and avoid the premature optimization trap.

Alex Noonan

November 13, 2025

Your Data Team Shouldn't Be a Help Desk: Use Compass with Your Data

Compass now supports every major data warehouse. Connect your own data and get AI-powered answers directly in Slack, with your governance intact and your data staying exactly where it is.

Alex Noonan

Introducing Our New eBook: Scaling Data Teams

November 5, 2025

Introducing Our New eBook: Scaling Data Teams

Learn how real data teams, from solo practitioners to enterprise-scale organizations, build in Dagster’s new eBook, Scaling Data Teams.

Dennis Hume

October 30, 2025

Dagster 1.12: Monster Mash

A refined Dagster experience. Faster navigation, GA Components, plug-and-play deployment, improved orchestration with FreshnessPolicies, and a new Support Center for builders at scale.

Dennis Hume

How Compass Turns Questions Into Queries

October 23, 2025

How Compass Turns Questions Into Queries

Go behind the scenes of Compass, Dagster’s analyst copilot, to see how it transforms plain-language questions into precise, optimized SQL queries. Learn how each step of the query-generation process helps analysts move faster and stay focused on insights.

Dennis Hume

Scaling Analysis Without Scaling the Team

October 20, 2025

Scaling Analysis Without Scaling the Team

Learn how to maximize the impact of your data stack with a lean team—keeping your analysts at the heart of every decision.

Anil Maharjan

October 1, 2025

Bridging High-Code and Low-Code

Empowering engineers with flexibility and analysts with accessibility

Alex Noonan

September 30, 2025

Building a Better Lakehouse: From Airflow to Dagster

How I took an excellent lakehouse tutorial and made it even better with modern data orchestration

Eric Thomas

September 25, 2025

Designing User-Friendly Dagster Components

The difference between components that thrive and components that collect digital dust? User experience design.

Dennis Hume

September 19, 2025

Dagster+ Now Available in the EU

We're thrilled to announce that Dagster+ has arrived in Europe!

Eric Larson

September 18, 2025

Dagster Components are Generally Available (GA)

Featuring YAML-based pipeline definitions, plug-and-play integrations, automatic documentation, and a unified CLI experience.

Colton Padden

Introducing the new Dagster+ UI – Your Data Platform’s Command Center

September 10, 2025

Introducing the new Dagster+ UI – Your Data Platform’s Command Center

Featuring a new modern homepage, enhanced asset health and freshness monitoring, customizable dashboards, and real-time insights with cost monitoring.

Josh Braun

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