Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- The role of an orchestrator in the lifecycle of data (1:34)
- Relevance of orchestration in data pipelines (00:02:45)
- Changes around data ops and MLOps (3:37)
- Data Cleaning (11:42)
- Overview of Dagster (13:50)
- Assets vs Tasks in Data Pipeline (19:15)
- Building a Data Pipeline with Dexter (25:40)
- Difference between Data Asset and Materialized Dataset (28:28)
- Defining Lineage and Data Assets in Dagster (29:32)
- The boundaries of software and organizational structures (37:25)
- The benefits of a unified orchestration framework (39:56)
- Orchestration in the development phase (45:29)
- The emergence of analytics engineer role (51:53)
- Fluidity in data pipeline and infrastructure roles (52:40)
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