DataAware by Ascend
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DataAware by Ascend is a community-focused podcast to discuss all things data engineering. With a variety of guests from all facets of data engineering and associated teams, each DataAware episode will look in-depth at the role of data engineering and data teams, trends, best (and worst) practices, real-world use cases, and more.
DataAware by Ascend
9M ago
In this episode, Sean and Leslie talk all things data lineage with Ascend solution engineer Jon Saltzman—from its importance at every step of the data journey to how data organizations go about ensuring their data is "certified fresh and organic" or rather, easily traceable to where it's been and who has touched it ..read more
DataAware by Ascend
9M ago
In this episode, we chat with Ascend Field Data Engineer Shayaan Saiyed about one thing data engineers can't function without—data transformations, including best practices for iterating and troubleshooting and how data teams can be goal-oriented when starting to think about their ETL pipeline ..read more
DataAware by Ascend
10M ago
In this episode, we go back to the foundations of data engineering and data pipelines with Sheel Choksi to take a deep dive into data ingest—from where to start to how to not back yourself into a data pipeline corner and what different requirements different sources may need, and more ..read more
DataAware by Ascend
11M ago
In this episode, Sean and Leslie sit down to discuss the concept of accidental ransomware—or when a team is slowed down by the burden of managing and maintaining outdated, commoditized, or otherwise decreasing in value software architectures or code. Learn how to spot the signs of accidental ransomware and negotiate the release in this week's episode ..read more
DataAware by Ascend
11M ago
In this episode, we do things a bit differently and chat with one of Ascend's lead engineers, Nandan Tammineedi, about his work helping develop the Ascend for Snowflake platform, including what surprised him during development, what he's enjoyed seeing since it has been in production and more ..read more
DataAware by Ascend
1y ago
In this episode, Sean and Leslie talk deeper about a foundational aspect of data engineering workloads—automation. They look at the confusion that frequently surrounds data automation and how some data teams can avoid the major pitfall of going too far too fast, so they can realize all the benefits automation brings ..read more
DataAware by Ascend
1y ago
In this episode, Sean and Leslie chat about one of the foundational principles of data engineering—data orchestration. What is it, who needs it (spoiler alert: everyone), and just how data engineering organizations, and data teams overall, need data orchestration to evolve over the next few years ..read more
DataAware by Ascend
1y ago
In this episode, Sheel and Leslie had the chance to sit down with Shawn Azman, Head of Operations at Vidora, to chat about how organizations are moving forward with building out machine learning pipelines, overcoming common pitfalls, and overall, successfully operationalizing their machine learning practices ..read more
DataAware by Ascend
1y ago
In this episode, we sat down to chat through the surprising (and not so surprising) results from our 2021 Data Aware Pulse Survey, which takes a look at how the data engineering landscape is evolving and how data teams are changing with it to meet growing organizational needs ..read more
DataAware by Ascend
1y ago
In this episode, Leslie chats with Ascend's own Joe Stevens about some of the recent infrastructure changes to the Ascend Platform, how this helps streamline users' data infrastructure, and more ..read more