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title: "Dagster Engineers, Asset-Based Orchestration Hired Offshore"
description: "Dagster engineers build asset-based pipelines with lineage, freshness checks and tests you can run. Hire one for your data team, managed by Azendo."
url: "https://azendo.co/skills/dagster/"
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# Dagster specialists for your dedicated team.

Dagster is a data orchestrator organised around assets. Pipelines declare the data they produce, so the system knows what exists, what it depends on and what is stale, as well as which steps ran.

## Where Dagster fits in a long-term product team.

Declaring assets instead of tasks changes what the orchestrator can tell you. A task-based scheduler knows a job succeeded; an asset-based one knows which table it produced, what that table depends on, when it was last refreshed and what downstream is now stale. That is the difference between "the pipeline ran" and "the numbers are current".

Dagster also takes testing seriously in a way most orchestrators do not. Assets are ordinary functions with declared inputs, so they can be unit tested without a scheduler, and resources can be swapped for local equivalents. Data pipelines are notoriously untested, and the tooling is a large part of why.

## What your dedicated team does with Dagster.

Freshness policies are what turn orchestration into something a business can rely on. An asset declared to be no more than six hours old triggers an alert when it falls behind, so stale data never goes unnoticed.

Setting those expectations is a conversation about what the business needs; holding them is what the assigned engineers answer for, which is the division described in how an assignment runs.

## Common Dagster use cases.

* Lineage the platform already knows Dependencies declared, so impact of a change is answerable without tracing code.
* Staleness surfaced automatically Freshness policies that alert before someone presents an out-of-date number.
* Pipelines under test Assets tested as functions, so a transformation change is verified before it runs on real data.

## Adding Dagster skills to your team.

Orchestration work sits with a [dedicated data engineering team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-engineering-team/), with freshness expectations agreed from the business need.

Dagster specialists join your team remotely as dedicated, full-time team members, selected, employed and managed by us in Chiang Mai and Bangkok. Companies that [hire offshore developers](https://azendo.co/hire-a-dedicated-development-team-in-thailand/) through Azendo add the skill when the product calls for it.

## Roles that use Dagster

* [Data Engineer Data engineering](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-engineering-team/data-engineer/)

## Service areas that use Dagster

* [Data engineering](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-engineering-team/)

Capacity is agreed across your whole team, with one monthly fee, not per skill.

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* [Airbyte, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/airbyte/)
* [Informatica, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/informatica/)

## Tell us what you need Dagster for.

A service delivery manager will reply with the specialists we'd suggest, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like.

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