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The Ascend Platform

Improved Ascend for Databricks, New Lineage Visualization, and Better Incremental Data Ingestion

This week, we released an upgrade to run on the latest Databricks APIs, and added features to ease getting data into Databricks.

Michael Leppitsch

December 19, 2022

Data Engineering 101

ETL vs ELT: Comprehensive Guide to Their Differences, Evolution, & Use Cases

ETL vs ELT: Explore the key differences, trace their evolution, and learn specific use cases to determine which one is best for you.

Jon Osborn

December 14, 2022

Data Engineering 101

Data Migration: Types, Process, and Successful Strategies

Data migration is a common undertaking for data teams. Yet, many underestimate the process. Discover how to keep from making the same mistake.

Ascend.io

December 1, 2022

Data Engineering 101

Data Pipeline Basics: From Raw Data to Actionable Insights

Unlock actionable insights and drive business growth with efficient, automated data pipelines. Explore the basics, challenges, and new approaches.

Michael Leppitsch

November 22, 2022

Data Engineering 101

What is ETL? – (Extract, Transform, Load)

Explore the ETL process, its importance, the transformation to ELT, and the tools needed to consolidate and analyze data effectively.

Paul Lacey

November 14, 2022

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

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