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Community Showcase Part 3

Community Showcase Part 3

Some of the most interesting Dagster projects come from the community. This post highlights creative community-built applications.

Classifying a Million Snowflake Columns in 9 Days, Solo, with Dagster

Classifying a Million Snowflake Columns in 9 Days, Solo, with Dagster

data governance. I built a tiered AI classification system, human review workflow, and the Dagster orchestration that ties it all together in production in nine days.

Prefect is Acquiring Dagster

Prefect is Acquiring Dagster

A letter from Nick Schrock, founder and creator of Dagster

Community Showcase Part 2

Community Showcase Part 2

Some of the most interesting Dagster projects come from the community. This post highlights creative community-built applications.

Operationalizing Data Orchestration: Best Practices for DevOps, Infra, and Code Locations

Operationalizing Data Orchestration: Best Practices for DevOps, Infra, and Code Locations

A complete guide with all the insights, tips, and some predictions for the data platform engineer, just like an Almanack provides, with practical information for daily life.

How to Make the Architectural Case for Dagster

How to Make the Architectural Case for Dagster

Mature orchestration environments often work operationally while still leaving critical data dependencies implicit. This post introduces the Orchestration Maturity Model, explains the architectural ceiling of job-centric systems, and shows how Dagster’s asset-aware approach helps teams reason about freshness, lineage, quality, and self-service at enterprise scale.

Community Showcase Part 1

Community Showcase Part 1

Some of the most interesting Dagster projects come from the community. This post highlights creative community-built applications.

How Dagster Compass Powers Brooklyn Data’s Self-Service Analytics

How Dagster Compass Powers Brooklyn Data’s Self-Service Analytics

Text-to-analytics promises self-service access to data, but adoption depends on usability, governance, and trust. In this guest post, Brooklyn Data explains how it evaluated Compass, deployed it on top of Snowflake, and enabled teams to answer operational questions directly in Slack while maintaining centralized governance and business context.

Snowflake Runs Your Data: Dagster Runs Everything Else

Snowflake Runs Your Data: Dagster Runs Everything Else

Snowflake increasingly handles transformation and data freshness internally through features like Dynamic Tables and Cortex. Dagster complements Snowflake by providing orchestration, lineage, automation, and cost visibility across your broader data platform from SQL-defined assets to downstream automation and Snowflake query attribution.

We Tried ty for Performance. It Found Real Bugs

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.

The Dagster Almanack: From Complexity to Composability

The Dagster Almanack: From Complexity to Composability

A complete guide with all the insights, tips, and some predictions for the data platform engineer, just like an Almanack provides, with practical information for daily life.

Announcing the Dagster+ Terraform Provider

Announcing the Dagster+ Terraform Provider

The Dagster+ Terraform provider lets platform teams manage deployments, access controls, alerting, and more as code. Define entire environments declaratively, review changes through pull requests, and integrate Dagster+ into your existing infrastructure workflows.