171: Machine Learning Pipelines Are Still Data Pipelines with Sandy Ryza of Dagster

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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