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Ascend Blog
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2020: The Year of the Citizen Data Engineer
Data scientists and data engineers play the primary role in accelerating a company’s data sophistication
Ascend Declarative Pipeline Workflows Address the Challenges Facing DataOps Today
Develop, test, and productionize data pipelines with an agility and stability…
Four Anti-patterns in Balancing Data Teams
How managers of data teams can set the stage for a path that fuels speed and business results
The Anti-Pattern in Big Data
The current state of the data world tends to err on solving…
Where is the Value: Code or Data?
Data teams spend most of their time building ad-hoc software to process the data, most frequently using…
Building the Ascend Structured Data Lake
To create our Structured Data Lake, we implemented an Amazon S3 API to directly access the Parquet files…
Azure Beta or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Kube
Given our stack, it should be pretty trivial to move clouds. I put this to the test with 48 hours and a couple engineers…
Implementing Istio at Ascend
I had the opportunity to intern with the infrastructure team at Ascend. As part of my role, I was given the task of assessing…
Queryable Dataflows: Combining the Interactivity of Warehouses with the Scale of Pipelines
One of the challenges when building pipelines is that what data to produce…
Ascend CEO Sean Knapp: Focus, Speed and Intensity Are The Three Key Ingredients for Startup Success
Originally posted on Microsoft for Startups By Shaloo Garg, Managing…
Introducing the Autonomous Dataflow Service!
This week, the team at Ascend is launching our Autonomous…