Astronomer Blog

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 17, 2020

Introducing KEDA for Airflow

Using KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaler), we've developed a robust method to scale Apache Airflow workers to be faster and more versatile than any previous architecture.

December 5, 2019

Profiling the Airflow Scheduler

Ash explains how he's been benchmarking and profiling the Airflow scheduler using py-spy and Flame Graphs.

December 3, 2019

Why Airflow?

Airflow continues to win due to an active and expanding community, and very deep, proven functionality.

November 12, 2019

The Next Generation of Astronomer Cloud

A new release of Astronomer Cloud built to support our latest features and designed to be a first step towards multi-cloud and multi-region support.

September 3, 2019

Astronomer v0.10

Announcing v0.10 of the Astronomer platform.

April 3, 2019

7 Common Errors to Check When Debugging Airflow DAGs

Tasks not running? DAG stuck? Logs nowhere to be found? We’ve been there. Here’s a list of common snags and some corresponding fixes to consider when you’re debugging your Airflow deployment.