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When to Move from Dagster OSS to Dagster+

February 26, 2026

When to Move from Dagster OSS to Dagster+

Dagster OSS is built for builders. But as teams grow, the operational burden of running the platform can quietly consume engineering time. This guide explains when it makes sense to move to Dagster+ and shift your focus back to building data products.

Dennis Hume

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Orchestrating Nanochat: Deploying the Model

December 16, 2025

Orchestrating Nanochat: Deploying the Model

Once the model is trained, the final step is getting it into users’ hands. This guide walks through turning your model into a fast, reliable RunPod endpoint—complete with orchestration and automated updates from Dagster.

Dennis Hume

December 15, 2025

Data Ingestion Patterns: When to Use Push, Pull, and Poll (With Real Examples)

A practical guide to choosing between push, pull, and poll data ingestion patterns. With real Dagster code examples to help you build reliable, maintainable pipelines.

Alex Noonan

December 11, 2025

Dagster + Atlan: Real-Time Asset Observability in Your Data Catalog

Automatically sync asset materialization events and lineage from Dagster Cloud to Atlan

Alex Noonan

Orchestrating Nanochat: Training the Models

December 9, 2025

Orchestrating Nanochat: Training the Models

Training an LLM isn’t one job—it’s a sequence of carefully managed stages. This part shows how Dagster coordinates your training steps on RunPod so every experiment is reproducible, scalable, and GPU-efficient.

Dennis Hume

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

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