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A note from Team Ascend

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A note from Team Ascend is the company blog at ascend.io, writing about data and business. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
4HN people?
2019–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this company blog's post arguing that a data pipeline is a materialized view, a model of cascading materialized views for big data pipelines. Comments also promote the Ascend product.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A note from Team Ascend.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Have a look @ https://www.ascend.io -- addresses the issues you highlight: 1. SQL + Python + Java + Scala 2. state management fully automated 3. automatic incremental materialized views

    Comment linking /

    on “A Data Pipeline Is a Materialized View”
  2. Submitted Omakase for our Data Stack: When to use closed source over an open data stack as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. smknappy · 2021-02-22Recommends
    Great post! Just heard about this from one of our customers who slacked me with "He is describing Ascend.io!" :-) Having spent 15+ years writing big data pipelines and building teams who do the same, I couldn't agree more... the conceptual model we're all quite comfortable with is this notion of cascading, materialized views. The challenge, however, is that they are expensive to maintain in a big data pipeline conte…

    Comment linking /data-engineering/

    on “A Data Pipeline Is a Materialized View”
  4. Submitted The Autonomous Dataflow Service as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Ascend.io | Data Automation Cloud | https://ascend.io/ | Full-Time | Hybrid (Menlo Park, CA) or REMOTE (Global) Ascend.io is an end-to-end data automation platform in the cloud. Ascend gives data teams a unified and automated platform to ingest, transform, deliver, observe and orchestrate their entire data engineering and analytics engineering workloads - 10X faster than ever before. If you eat data, Python, SQL, Go…

    Comment linking /company/careers/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)”

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