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New: support for 75 more SQL functions

We’re announcing the addition of 75 new SQL functions that are now available in every customer environment by default. This includes powerful new functions like BOOL_AND, COUNT_IF, FIND_IN_SET, MAX_BY, WEEKDAY, and well, 70 more!!!

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Introducing the Autonomous Dataflow Service!

This week, the team at Ascend is launching our Autonomous Dataflow Service, which enables data engineers to build, scale, and operate continuously optimized, Apache Spark-based pipelines.

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Ascend Declarative Pipeline Workflows Address the Challenges Facing DataOps Today

At Ascend, we are excited to introduce a new paradigm for managing the development lifecycle of data products — Declarative Pipeline Workflows. Keying off the movement toward declarative descriptions in the DevOps community, and leveraging Ascend’s Dataflow Control Plane, Declarative Pipeline Workflows are a powerful tool that allows data engineers

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Building the Ascend Structured Data Lake

We run everything on Kubernetes and manage system state in MySQL plus a large scale blob store (Google Storage/S3/Azure Blob Storage).

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