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2025 DataAware Pulse Survey
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- Skillfully chart out your roadmap for the upcoming year.
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Download the 2025 Dataware Pulse Survey for insights on data engineering trends, best practices, and priorities of data teams.
- Articles
Learn effective metadata management practices to streamline your data engineering workflows, enhance data quality, & optimize your pipelines.
- Articles
What is DataOps? Discover benefits, best practices, and implementation strategies to enhance your data workflows and drive business outcomes.
- Articles
Snowflake Summit 2024 has set the stage for exciting changes in the data landscape. As a data enthusiast and a leader in data engineering, I’m eager to share my reflections on these innovations and their implications for Ascend.
- Articles
Explore the relationship between AI and data engineering: How do they impact each other, and what does the future of their collaboration look like?
- Articles
Unlock AI's potential with the right data platform: Explore AI data platform requirements, cloud capabilities, and automation for innovation.
- Articles
Explore the complexities of data replication strategies in a way that's easy to understand, including types and how to choose the right one.
- Articles
Explore the framework to set up a robust AI ecosystem and the key considerations for an effective AI implementation strategy.
- Articles
Explore how to build a data pipeline in 6 steps, from design to deployment, and learn a new framework to simplify the process.
- Articles
Dive into ETL for Snowflake: Discover if you need it, when it's essential, and tips on picking the perfect ETL tool for your data strategy.
- Podcasts
Are data pipelines a new security concern for LLM projects? Join Sean and Paul as they unpack the recent AI safety and security guidelines unveiled by the US and UK governments, endorsed by 16 other countries and dozens of top AI companies in Silicon Valley.
- Articles
Uncover data orchestration's impact on workflow efficiency and reevaluate the necessity of an orchestration layer in your data strategy
- Articles
Explore practical AI use cases for enterprises, including real-world examples and strategies for successful AI integration.
- Articles
Although every company has unique data challenges, there are several near-universal data pipeline best practices that can guide every data leader in building a solid foundation with their team.