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

Data Platform Quickstarts

• BigQuery Quickstart
• Snowflake Quickstart
• MotherDuck Quickstart
• Databricks Quickstart

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

• Support: support@ascend.io
• General: info@ascend.io
• Sales: sales@ascend.io