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From YouTube: DAIS21 Meetup: Introduction, Principles and Origin of Dagster

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This talk was given at one of four live meetups as part of Data + AI Summit 2021 on May 26, 2021.

Title: Introduction, principles and origin of Dagster by Nick Schrock

Abstract: Nick will cover the principles and origin of Dagster (https://dagster.io/). Dagster is a new type of workflow engine: a data orchestrator. Moving beyond just managing the ordering & physical execution of data computations, Dagster considers the entire data application lifecycle. Practitioners in Dagster build data-aware dependency graphs designed for local development and testing; deploy those graphs to multi-tenant, cloud-native orchestration engine; and then monitor and observe the data assets produced by those computations.

In this talk, Nick will cover how Dagster differentiates itself across the three stages (dev & test, deploy & execute, monitor & observer) of the application lifecycle. Through a demo and code snippets, the talk aims to show how the Dagit web UI and Dagster programming model can power a variety of data practitioners.

Speaker: Nick Schrock is the founder and CEO of Elementl, the company behind Dagster. Previously, Nick worked at Facebook, where he co-created GraphQL. Databricks is proud to announce that Gartner has named us a Leader in both the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems and the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. Download the reports here. https://databricks.com/databricks-named-leader-by-gartner