158: The Orchestration Layer as the Data Platform Control Plane With Nick Schrock of Dagster Labs

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Nick Schrock, Founder of Dagster Labs. During the episode, Nick discusses his background at Facebook and his involvement in successful open-source technologies like React and GraphQL. Nick explains the mismatch between the complexity and available tools in the data infrastructure space, leading him to start Dagster Labs. The group also talks about the challenges and fragmentation in the data engineering industry, the need for better abstraction layers, the role of orchestrators, comparing it to GraphQL's role in product engineering, the importance of data orchestration in the future of data infrastructure and engineering, and more.