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September 22, 2023

Ask Astro: An open source LLM Application with Apache Airflow

Michael Gregory Staff Ecosystem Engineer

A reference implementation and community dialogue for building production-grade day-2 operations for LLM applications

September 8, 2023

Change Data Capture with Airflow - Part 2

We look at some examples to implement CDC in Airflow using a legacy data pipeline with batch processing, and look at advanced use cases for near-real-time processing.

August 30, 2023

Comparing Data Orchestration: Databricks Workflows vs. Apache Airflow, Part 1

A detailed guide to building an ETL workflow in Databricks Workflows and Apache Airflow

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.

August 23, 2016

Lessons Learned Writing Data Pipelines

I know first-hand how challenging data pipelines can be. Here's a peek under the hood of Astronomer at what makes our growing platform unique.

July 20, 2016

Why We Built Our Data Platform on AWS, and Why We Rebuilt It With Open Source

As Astronomer’s CTO, I’m going to chronicle our journey, from a technical perspective, as we grow our platform and home in on how to meet our users’ real needs.

July 13, 2016

An Almost Acquisition Story

Coming out of AngelPad’s 2015 Demo Day, we found ourselves vacillating between an acquisition and Series A, though we were arguably too early for either.

June 19, 2016

Announcing Astronomer v0.9

Release notes for v0.9 of the Astronomer Platform

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