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The latest insights from our team of experts

May 15, 2023

How we optimized the Registry for performance across millions of page views

Ian Moritz , Software Engineer
Julian LaNeve , Senior Product Manager

Migrating the Astronomer Registry’s backend from Airtable to Postgres and a Golang REST API

May 3, 2023

Scale Airflow with confidence using Astro’s new Alerting capabilities

See how Astro can help you stay ahead of Data SLAs and commitments to stakeholders

May 2, 2023

Introducing Airflow 2.6

Apache Airflow 2.6 contains over 500 commits from over 130 contributors, adding up to 35 new features, 50 general improvements, and 27 bug fixes.

March 30, 2021

Announcing the Astronomer Registry

Today, we're excited to release our discovery and distribution hub for Apache Airflow integrations.

March 23, 2021

Airflow 2.0 TaskFlow API and Its Features

Learn how the TaskFlow API in Airflow 2.0 enables a better DAG authoring experience.

March 8, 2021

Secrets Management in Airflow 2.0

Secrets are sensitive information that are used as part of your DAG. Here are some best practices for managing them in Apache Airflow 2.0.

January 21, 2021

Change Data Capture With Apache Airflow: Part 1

Implementing production-grade change data capture in near real-time on Google CloudSQL with Apache Airflow.

January 5, 2021

Building a Scalable Analytics Architecture With Airflow and dbt: Part 2

Now that we have these DAGs running locally and built from our dbt `manifest.json` file, the natural next step is to evaluate how these should look in a production context.

December 22, 2020

Building a Scalable Analytics Architecture With Airflow and dbt

Implementing an ideal development experience at the intersection of two popular open-source tools, written in collaboration with our friends at Updater.

December 17, 2020

The Airflow 2.0 Scheduler

A technical deep-dive into Apache Airflow's refactored Scheduler, now significantly faster and ready for scale.

November 23, 2020

A Great Expectations Provider for Apache Airflow

We're pleased to announce an official integration that allows users to leverage Great Expectations natively in their DAGs.

October 29, 2020

Introducing Airflow 2.0

A breakdown of the major features incorporated in Apache Airflow 2.0, including a refactored, highly-available Scheduler, over 30 UI/UX improvements, a new REST API and much more.

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