Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by returning guest and Elementl Founder Nick Shrock to talk about Dagster's role in the modern data stack ecosystem and software defined assets, a new, declarative approach to managing data and orchestrating its maintenance. Introducing Software-Defined Assets Rethinking Orchestration as Reconciliation: Software-Defined Assets in Dagster Optimizing Data Materialization Using Dagster’s Policies How I use Dagster to orchestrate the production of social science data assets