What you'll learn

When data pipelines are built as disconnected scripts, it becomes nearly impossible to understand what depends on what or to predict the impact of a change. In this course, Create Asset Graphs and Dependencies with Dagster, you'll learn to design and implement a fully connected asset graph that models a real data pipeline. First, you'll explore how to map pipeline stages to software-defined assets and connect them through dependencies. Next, you'll discover how to enrich assets with metadata, tags, and grouping to make your graph navigable and self-documenting. Finally, you'll learn how to control exactly what runs by using selection patterns and targeted materialization. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of Dagster asset graphs needed to build pipelines where every dependency is explicit, every asset is traceable, and every run is intentional.