The Ascend Blog

Get insights and advice on automating repetitive data engineering, optimizing data platform costs, and accelerating data initiatives at your company.

Subscribe and get all the articles delivered straight to your inbox.
Or customize your subscription to receive only the topics you are most interested in.

Data Products, The Ascend Platform

How Ascend Ingestion Accelerates Data Product Delivery

Discover how Ascend ingestion is fully integrated within the entire Data Automation platform and produces time and cost savings at scale.

Michael Leppitsch

November 8, 2022

The Ascend Platform

Why Startups Love Ascend

Discover why startups love Ascend to eliminate distractions, make more data-driven decisions, and stay focused.

Jon Osborn

September 23, 2022

The Ascend Platform

Why Free Data Ingestion Accelerates Business Value

Discover how free data ingestion removes a barrier to focusing on meaningful transformations and faster delivery.

Jon Osborn

August 29, 2022

Data Automation

Automating Data Workloads for Success: Is Your Automation Architecture Data Aware?

I went for a hike the other day. As much as I enjoy nature, I’m a geek at heart so I naturally started thinking about the various levels of awareness that data tooling has.

Jon Osborn

July 13, 2022

Data Automation

Automating Data Workloads for Success: Reflecting on Snowflake Summit 2022

I thought I’d share a couple of themes that kept coming up during conversations at Snowflake Summit with a range of people from data engineers to data analysts to executives and business people.

Jon Osborn

June 29, 2022

Team Ascend

Automating Data Workloads for Success: Why I Joined Ascend.io as Field CTO

Introducing lots of cloud native services, new advances in deep analytics and A.I., and other technology can slow down delivery, increase sprawl, yet solve real problems while creating others.

Jon Osborn

June 21, 2022

Data Engineering 101

Getting to the Heart of ETL with Data Transformation

In this episode, Sean and I chat with one of Ascend's Field Data Engineers, Shayaan Saiyed, about one thing data engineers can't function without—data transformations.

Ascend.io

May 4, 2022

Data Engineering 101

Data Transformation Explained

How do you structure and make data accessible for stakeholders to drive insights? The answer is data transformation. Discover more!

Shayaan Saiyed

April 5, 2022

Data Automation

How Automation Delivers More Business Value | Partner Webinar Series

In this installment of the Ascend partner webinar series we talk with Cyrus Facciano and Jared Langguth, the principals of X is Y, about their secret sauce to helping major enterprises create business value with technology and automation.

Michael Leppitsch

April 4, 2022

Data Engineering 101

Three Mistakes Data Engineering Managers Make That Slow Down Development (And How to Speed It Back Up)

Leading data teams is challenging. Few technological domains have undergone such rapid change over the past few years. Yet the vast majority of data teams, 96% to be exact, are at or over capacity.

Sean Knapp

March 28, 2022

The Ascend Platform

D-SHAs: Smarter, Faster, and More Efficient Pipelines with Incremental Data Shas

We are excited to announce D-SHAs, a mechanism used to actively check intermediate data and halt downstream processing that is simply not necessary.

Kyle Osborne

March 24, 2022

Data Engineering 101

Data Ingestion: What You Need to Know

Explore the essentials of data ingestion, its types, challenges, and its critical role in effective data analysis and informed decision-making.

Paul Lacey

February 21, 2022

Data Automation

Data Automation: What It Is and Why It Matters

Data automation reduces manual work and enhances data management. Learn how automated data engineering empowers data teams to drive better outcomes.

Sean Knapp

February 14, 2022

Team Ascend

2021 Look Back (5X User Growth!) and 2022 Look Forward (The Year of Data Automation)

By the numbers, this year was nothing short of remarkable. Developers on Ascend grew 5x in 2021. This was driven not only by new customers, but also by consistent growth in adoption across existing teams, with the number of developers per team expanding by more than 2.4x.

Sean Knapp

January 11, 2022

The Ascend Platform

Be Power Selects Ascend.io to Supercharge Data Engineering Velocity

Milan-based Electric Mobility Company Leverages the Ascend Platform for an 80% Reduction in Time Spent Building and Managing End-to-End Data Pipelines

Ascend.io

October 19, 2021

Subscribe and get all the articles delivered straight to your inbox.
Or customize your subscription to receive only the topics you are most interested in.