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