Engineering

How to Orchestrate Across Multiple Databricks Workspaces Without Losing Your Mind

April 20, 2026

How to Orchestrate Across Multiple Databricks Workspaces Without Losing Your Mind

Once your pipelines span multiple Databricks workspaces, you're no longer orchestrating a single system you're coordinating a distributed one.

Eric Thomas

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Build a poor man’s data lake from scratch with DuckDB

October 25, 2022

Build a poor man’s data lake from scratch with DuckDB

DuckDB is so hot right now. Learn how to build a data lake from dbt using DuckDB for SQL transformations, along with Python, Dagster, and Parquet files.

Pete Hunt

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data Pipeline Smoke Tests

October 19, 2022

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data Pipeline Smoke Tests

Data practitioners waste time writing unit tests to catch bugs they could have caught with smoke tests.

Sandy Ryza

October 17, 2022

Web Workers are not the Answer

A tale of overstretched logs, counterintuitive web worker behavior, and ultimately a troublesome cursor issue.

Jordan Sanders

Postgres: a Better Message Queue than Kafka?

October 4, 2022

Postgres: a Better Message Queue than Kafka?

When lots of event logs must be stored and indexed, Kafka is the obvious choice. Naturally, our queue runs on Postgres.

Pete Hunt

August 17, 2022

Spend Less Time Debugging with Dagster

It’s not uncommon for a data engineer to devote 80% of their day to debugging. Dagster radically improves on this.

Sandy Ryza

August 3, 2022

The Open Core Business Model

The relationship between Dagster, the open-source project, and Dagster Cloud, our hosted SaaS platform.

Nick Schrock

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