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Making Dagster Easier to Contribute to in an AI-Driven World

April 1, 2026

Making Dagster Easier to Contribute to in an AI-Driven World

AI has made contributing to open source easier but reviewing contributions is still hard. At Dagster, we’re improving the contributor experience with smarter review tooling, clearer guidelines, and a focus on contributions that are easier to evaluate, merge, and maintain.

Dennis Hume

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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

Introducing Compass: Data-driven decisions right in Slack

September 10, 2025

Introducing Compass: Data-driven decisions right in Slack

Converse with your company's data right in Dagster. Compass moves beyond static dashboards by enabling a natural language, two-way conversation with your data. This allows anyone to ask follow-up questions, incorporate their own business context, and achieve true data fluency without writing a single line of SQL.