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. … Read More
Data Engineering

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. … Read More

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. … Read More

Certifying Data Fresh and Organic with Data Lineage
In this episode, Sean and I talk with Jon Saltzman about all things data lineage and its importance at every step of the data pipeline. … Read More

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. … Read More

Back to the Beginning with Data Ingest
In this episode, we go back to the foundations of data engineering and data pipelines with a deep dive into data ingest. … Read More

New Research Finds Data Automation Adoption to Climb from 3.5% to 88.5% Over the Next 12 Months
Adoption Rising as the Need for Data Products Grows Faster Than Team Size and a Staggering 95% of Data Teams Are Still at or Over Capacity
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Investing in Automation
What Our Series B Signals, and Why 2022 is the Year of Automation … Read More

Data Transformation Explained
Data transformation is the process of converting data from one format or structure to another. Ascend makes data transformation more efficient and automated. … Read More

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. … Read More