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Blog
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.
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June 22, 2023
Revisiting the Poor Man’s Data Lake with MotherDuck
See how much easier you can collaborate using DuckDB’s high-powered cloud version MotherDuck to build a one-system data lake.
Pete Hunt
Engineering
June 15, 2023
The Dagster Master Plan
Elementl CEO Pete Hunt shares the three priorities that guide how we will evolve Dagster.
Pete Hunt
Product
June 6, 2023
Backfills in Data & Machine Learning: A Primer
A step-by-step guide to using backfills and partitions to make data management more simple for data & ML engineers.
Sandy Ryza
Engineering
May 24, 2023
Elementl Raises $33 Million in Series B Funding to Accelerate Data Orchestration and Unleash Advanced Data Use Cases
The new capital will accelerate the development and adoption of Dagster, the open-source, cloud-native data orchestrator.
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Product
May 24, 2023
Dagster and the Decade of Data Engineering
We are pleased to announce Elementl's $33M Series B and share our vision for what's next for Dagster and the practice of data engineering.
Nick Schrock
Engineering
May 23, 2023
Building Better Analytics Pipelines
A recap of our live event on the benefits and techniques for orchestrating analytics pipelines.
Pete Hunt
Engineering
May 19, 2023
Introducing Dynamic Definitions for Flexible Asset Partitioning
Dagster’s dynamic partition definitions allow engineers to use the power of partitions in a broader range of scenarios.
Claire Lin
Engineering
May 17, 2023
Deciphering Arcane Kubernetes and ECS Errors with Dagster
Recent enhancements allow Dagster to surface clearer and more actionable errors to accelerate your development cycles.
Daniel Gibson
Product
May 9, 2023
How to Maintain High Product & Code Quality As Your Startup Scales
Raising the quality bar requires process adjustments and a cultural shift.
Bosmat Eldar
Engineering
April 26, 2023
Announcing Dagster 1.3: Smooth Operator
Dagster 1.3 officially inducts Pythonic Config and Resources and brings new enhancements to Software-Defined Assets, integrations, documentation, and guides.
Yuhan Luo
Releases
April 14, 2023
From Python Projects to Dagster Pipelines
In part IV of our series, we explore setting up a Dagster project, and the key concept of Data Assets.
Elliot Gunn
Engineering
April 3, 2023
Community Memo: Pythonic Config and Resources
Major ergonomic improvements are coming to Dagster's config and resources systems, including a Pydantic frontend.
