What is Dagster: A Guide to the Data Orchestrator

Dagster is a solution for defining, maintaining, and observing key data assets in organizations. It provides a framework and system for building a data platform where teams can collaborate to define required data assets, observe and test pipeline runs, enforce data quality rules, establish reliable scheduling, report on asset states, and more. Dagster's design emphasizes developer experience, community support, and flexibility, scalability, observability, and reliability. It addresses critical data challenges such as exploding data volumes, security, and governance by providing a structured approach to data engineering, testing, maintainability, and error handling. By choosing Dagster, organizations can build sustainable and scalable data platforms that meet current needs and adapt to future challenges, with features like improved development velocity, enhanced observability, alignment with best practices, rapid debugging, greater reliability, flexible integration, scalability, community support, and more.