💭 Concepts

Ascend is the Agentic Data Engineering platform. Effective use of AI starts with a solid engineering foundation. Ascend is a fully-featured data platform for ETL/ELT workloads and orchestration with familiar data engineering language:

• Data engineers work on an Ascend Project that is version-controlled in an Ascend Repository
• Data engineers develop Ascend Flows (data pipelines) for a Project in an Ascend Workspace
• Data engineers deploy that same Project to an Ascend Deployment for production use
• The development and deployment lifecycle in Ascend follows DataOps best practices
• Otto is your intelligent data engineering Agent in Ascend, helping you every step of the way

Next steps

We recommend starting with the Instance page to understand the top-level resource and go from there. If you have access to an Ascend Instance, you can use Otto to help you navigate the documentation and explain concepts!