Getting Started 🚀

Welcome to the Ascend's Unified Data Engineering Platform!

This guide will help you get started with Ascend.io super-duper fast!

🛠️ Looking to install and set up your Ascend Instance?

If you do not have an Ascend Instance and are looking to set one up, you can follow the steps in our Instance Setup Guide. These instructions will walk you through how to request an Ascend Instance, and any setup you will need to do to get your instance ready for building!

✅ Already have access to an Ascend Instance?

If you already have an Ascend Instance, you're now ready to build! You can get started with our Ascend Quickstart below, take a tour of the product, or dive deeper into Ascend concepts and Tutorials.

🚀 Ascend Quickstart

Ascend's Quickstart will guide you through building and running your first flow with Ascend. You'll access a sample project that will help you get up and running in no time! If that sounds like fun, click here!

🗺️ Product Tour

First, let's take a tour of the product, why don't we? 😀

Wow, that was great, what should we do next?!

❓ What's Next?

Choose your own adventurous path:

• 🤓 Learn Basic Concepts - for those of you who like to know the who, what, where, when and why!
• 📚 How To Guides - for step-by-step, very specific instructions!
• 📖 Reference - when the going gets tough, always consult the manual!
• 🚑 Get Help - support is on the way!
• 🧐 Provide Feedback - click the red feedback button on the right side of every page (it's over there! ➡️)

😎 How Our Docs Work

Our documentation is based on the Diátaxis model: Tutorials, How-To Guides, Explanation (Concepts) and Reference. This structure is designed to help you get started quickly and easily, and to provide you with the resources you need to be successful with Ascend!

We have arranged content within these sections based on the activities you do with the platform:

• Setup
• Build
• Run
• etc.

You will see this structure repeated throughout the documentation, so you can easily find the information you need!