The Shift From Data Pipelines to Data Products

Simon Späti
14 min readJun 20, 2022
The Shift From Data Pipelines to Data Products

Data consumers, such as data analysts, and business users, care mostly about the production of data assets. On the other hand, data engineers have historically focused on modeling the dependencies between tasks (instead of data assets) with an orchestrator tool. How can we reconcile both worlds?

This article reviews open-source data orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster) and…

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Simon Späti

Data Engineer & Technical Author with 15+ years of experience. I enjoy maintaining awareness of new innovative and emerging open-source technologies.