Additional Resources
Links and resources to support your learning journey beyond the bootcamp.
Cody's recommended resources
Presented Day 1
- Zach Wilson: (LinkedIn) — Your data engineering career is cooked
- Wes McKinney: Why not?
- Matt Rocklin: AI zealotry and AI beginners
Additional content
- Simon Willison's blog
- fly.io: You're all nuts
- Sketch: Agent loop
- antirez: News 158
- Simon Willison: Agents (Sep 2025)
- crawshaw.io: Programming with agents
Ascend Documentation
- Getting Started Guide — Sign up, connect your data platform, build your first pipeline
- Otto Concepts — Deep dive into how Otto works
- Otto Rules — Create custom rules to customize Otto's behavior
- Otto Agents — Build custom agents from scratch
- Automations — Schedule and trigger pipeline runs
API Documentation
These are the APIs we used in the bootcamp labs:
- UK Carbon Intensity API — Real-time and historical carbon intensity data
- Open-Meteo Weather API — Free weather data and forecasts
Data Platform Quickstarts
Community
- Ascend Community Slack — Connect with other users and get help
- Ascend on LinkedIn — Follow for updates and announcements
Tutorials
- Send Email Alerts — Set up email notifications for your pipelines
- Slack MCP Integration — Connect Otto to Slack
Contact
- Sales: sales@ascend.io
- Support: support@ascend.io
- General: info@ascend.io