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.

July 17, 2017

What Exactly Is a DAG?

What exactly is a DAG and what does it tell us that the term “data pipeline” can't?

June 28, 2017

Data Engineering Platform Astronomer Closes $3.5M Financing

The Astronomer platform collects, processes and unifies data, allowing organizations to scale analytics, data science and insights.

June 20, 2017

Normalizing Data for Warehouse Centralization

Knowing the options for storing data will help you make the right decisions for your company when you’re ready to take this step.

February 28, 2017

Apache Airflow and the Future of Data Engineering: A Q&A with Maxime Beauchemin

I reached out to Max about doing an interview post, and to my delight, he agreed. Here are thoughtful answers to questions about Airflow and data engineering.

December 20, 2016

Our Open Source Philosophy

The world where technology is open sourced is the world we want to live in. Our CTO explains why.

December 14, 2016

Why Is My Data Playing Hard to Get?

When we talk about 'hard to reach' data, what kind of data are we talking about, and why exactly is it so hard to access, organize, and store?

November 2, 2016

Airflow at Astronomer

To extract and monitor all types of data pipelines, we needed a unified scheduling system. Airflow was our answer— and a whole lot more.

October 11, 2016

Press Release: Astronomer Announces Seed Financing

Press Release: Astronomer Closes $1.9M in Seed Financing

October 11, 2016

Our Unique Path to Raising $2M Seed in the Midwest

Our path to raising $2M is a series of short stories with some amazing protagonists.

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