The Astronomer Blog: Data Orchestration Insights & Guides

June 22, 2023

Three ways to use Airflow with MotherDuck and DuckDB

Use Apache Airflow® with DuckDB and MotherDuck in three different ways. Access the DuckDB Python package directly, leverage the DuckDB Airflow provider, and use DuckDB with the Astro Python SDK.

June 13, 2023

The Astro Cloud IDE: from Python and SQL to nearly 1,000 Airflow operators

Use ~1,000 open-source Airflow operators and define your own custom operators in the Astro Cloud IDE with the newly released cell type functionality

June 2, 2023

The Top 7 Alternatives to MWAA

Beyond MWAA: Top 7 data orchestration tools for optimized workflows and increased productivity.

June 2, 2023

The Top 7 Alternatives to Google Cloud Composer

Picking the right tools for your data stack depends on your exact business and engineering needs, and the choice may seem daunting. Thankfully, there are several popular tools, each with thousands of users, all with a unique approach for managing data pipelines.

May 15, 2023

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

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

This new functionality in Astro lets you easily implement DAG-level or task-level alerts to be sent to Slack or PagerDuty.

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.

April 3, 2023

Kubernetes Executor Support in Astro: A New Era of Scalability and Resource Management

Announcing Kubernetes Executor support in Astro. You can now take advantage of the power of Kubernetes to manage resources & scale your Airflow workloads.

March 30, 2023

Astro CI/CD Enforcement for Code Changes

Ensure that all code changes are deployed within your CI/CD processes, increase code quality, and enforce automated testing.

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