Product

March 12, 2026

Unlocking the Full Value of Your Databricks

Standardizing on Databricks is a smart strategic move, but consolidation alone does not create a working operating model across teams, tools, and downstream systems. By pairing Databricks and Unity Catalog with Dagster, enterprises can add the coordination layer needed for dependency visibility, end-to-end lineage, and faster, more confident delivery at scale.

Dennis Hume

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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

February 5, 2026

Great Infrastructure Needs Great Stories: Designing our Children’s Book

We set out to explain Dagster assets in the simplest possible way: as living characters that wait, react, and change with their dependencies. By designing a children’s book with warmth, visuals, and motion, we rediscovered what makes assets compelling in the first place.

Dennis Hume

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 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

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

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

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

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

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.

Pete Hunt

July 10, 2025

Announcing ETL Course with Dagster

Dagster is excited to announce the launch of ETL with Dagster, a comprehensive seven-lesson course. This free course guides you through practical ETL implementation and architectural considerations, from single-file ingestion to full-scale database replication

Dennis Hume