Engineering
September 8, 2026
The Data Plane Is Yours: Dagster+ Hybrid on Kubernetes and Azure
This article draws on a Dagster+ Hybrid deployment on Kubernetes and Azure at a very large enterprise. It covers the work outside the Helm chart: workload ownership, isolation, networking, identity, sizing, and capacity.
May 21, 2026
We Tried ty for Performance. It Found Real Bugs
We adopted Astral’s new Python type checker, ty, to speed up type checking in the Dagster monorepo. The performance gains were dramatic, but the bigger surprise was that ty caught real runtime bugs Pyright missed. Here’s what we learned migrating a large Python codebase incrementally to ty.
January 26, 2026
Pytest for Agent-Generated Code: Concrete Testing Strategies to Put Into Practice
When agents write tests, intent matters as much as correctness. By defining clear testing levels, preferred patterns, and explicit anti-patterns, we give agents the structure they need to produce fast, reliable Pytest suites that scale with automation.