Hi all Do you think that assets a good way to materialize a

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Hi all Do you think that assets a good way to materialize a daily report currently text and tabular data Or should we handle that independently saving the data to s3 and storing the metadata in our warehouse

prha · Answer

Hi Cris Assets are the representation of artifacts external to dagster In your example they d be a good way of tracing which pipeline runs actually produce affect the daily report The actual saving storing the data is independent of this asset representation

prha · Answer

A good use of assets materialization is to have your pipeline generate the daily report and then yield an `AssetMaterialization` maybe with the location and metadata for that daily report You could then have a view in Dagit on the Assets dashboard for that daily report and see all the pipeline runs that produced that asset historically along with their metadata

Cris · Answer

oh I see thanks for the explanation and use case