The Astronomer Blog: Data Orchestration Insights & Guides

December 7, 2022

5 Ways to View and Manage DAGs in Airflow

Find out what the most popular and useful DAG views in the Airflow UI are. Learn about the Airflow Graph View, Grid View, Calendar View, and Browse Tab.

December 5, 2022

Introducing the Astro Cloud IDE

Discover the Astro Cloud IDE, a notebook-inspired tool for writing data pipelines. See how to define tasks and connections without knowing Apache Airflow®.

December 2, 2022

What’s New in Apache Airflow® 2.5

Check out what’s new in Apache Airflow® 2.5. Learn more about improvements to Airflow’s dynamic task mapping and data-dependent scheduling features.

November 28, 2022

A Short History of DAG Writing

Learn about Airflow & its updated features. Get to know how users can benefit from Taskflow API, Custom XCom Backends, Astro SDK, and the Astro Cloud IDE.

November 17, 2022

Best Practices for Secure Network Connectivity and Authentication in Astro

Learn how to securely hook up data sources and implement strong authentication in Astro — a modern data orchestration solution powered by Apache Airflow®.

November 11, 2022

3 Ways to Extract Data Lineage with Airflow

Learn how to extract data lineage events from your Airflow pipelines using OpenLineage. Plus, see how these three methods work with the Astro platform.

November 10, 2022

How Astro’s Data Graph Helps Data Engineers Run and Fix Their Pipelines

Discover how Astro can help you understand, communicate, and solve pipeline problems. Learn about the key pipeline observability feature – the Data Graph.

November 3, 2022

OpenLineage: Where It Came from and What Comes Next

Hear from Julien Le Dem, Chief Architect at Astronomer, about the creation of OpenLineage and how it’s evolving into a standard for data lineage.

October 27, 2022

How to Keep Data Quality in Check with Airflow

Learn more about Airflow-driven data quality checks, their benefits, and design. Find out how data quality issues are detected and solved at Astronomer.

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