---
title: "A Practical Guide to Building Data Platforms That Grow with You"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-practical-guide-to-building-data-platforms-that-grow-with-you-atug0vxqz
source_url: https://dagster.io/blog/introducing-our-new-ebook-scaling-data-teams
type: article
source: "Dagster Blog"
published: 2026-05-31T07:44:13.718Z
updated: 2026-06-04T02:16:48.254Z
tags: ["dagster", "data-engineering"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# A Practical Guide to Building Data Platforms That Grow with You

**[Dagster Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/dagster-blog)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Dagster has released a free eBook titled 'Scaling Data Teams' aimed at data practitioners and teams of all sizes. The guide covers how to build and scale data platforms across four team stages: solo (1 person), small (5 people), growing (10 people), and enterprise (20 people). Each stage addresses specific challenges like balancing ad-hoc requests, building trust through testing, ensuring reliability with modular design, and establishing governance. The eBook includes real-world case studies from Dagster customers including Erewhon, StashAway, Vanta, and Otto.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://dagster.io/blog/introducing-our-new-ebook-scaling-data-teams>

---

Tags: [#dagster](https://daily.dev/tags/dagster), [#data-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/data-engineering)

[View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-practical-guide-to-building-data-platforms-that-grow-with-you-atug0vxqz)
