# How we Use Dagster Automations in our Data Pipeline

DevFeed: [How we Use Dagster Automations in our Data Pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-we-use-dagster-automations-in-our-data-pipeline-29999.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://engineering.freeagent.com/2025/12/10/how-we-use-dagster-automations-in-our-data-pipeline/>)

Author: Delphine Rabiller

Published: 2025-12-10T11:32:42Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [FreeAgent](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/freeagent.md>)

Topics: [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>)

Tags: [analytics-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics-engineering.md>), [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [dagster](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dagster.md>), [data-ml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-ml.md>), [data-pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-pipeline.md>), [data-pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-pipelines.md>), [declarative](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/declarative.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipeline.md>), [scheduled](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scheduled.md>), [sensors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sensors.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>), [triggers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/triggers.md>)

## AI overview

This engineering post explains how FreeAgent is migrating data pipelines to Dagster and re-architecting its automation logic. It describes three approaches to automating asset materialization: schedules, declarative automation, and asset sensors, including when schedules are appropriate and how declarative automation uses asset dependencies and materialization status.

## Source excerpt

Introduction The heart of a reliable data platform are robust and automated data pipelines. As our team migrates our data pipelines to Dagster, re-architecting our automation logic is a crucial task. Dagster offers condition-based approaches to creating or updating a data asset (table or file), moving us toward a modern, asset-centric view of data. This [...]