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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Nick’s background and journey in data (2:28)
• Founding Dagster Labs (7:50)
• The evolution of data engineering (12:32)
• Fragmentation in data infrastructure (15:04)
• The role of orchestration in data platforms (19:53)
• The importance of operational tools for data pipelines (25:01)
• Lessons learned from working with GraphQL (26:19)
• The role of the orchestrator in data engineering (34:51)
• The boundaries between data infrastructure and product engineering (37:33)
• Different orchestrators in the data infrastructure landscape(42:03)
• The role of MLOps in data engineering (46:04)
• Data Quality and Orchestration (51:04)
• Future of Data Teams and Orchestration (54:27)
• Final thoughts and takeaways from (58:01)

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