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.

September 19, 2022

Apache Airflow 2.4 — Everything You Need to Know

Airflow 2.4 is here, with a new datasets feature that augments Airflow with powerful data-driven scheduling capabilities. And much more!

September 14, 2022

Podcast Spotlight: What Observability Brings to Data Orchestration

Astronomer’s SVP of R&D talks about the “virtuous circle” that combining them creates for business.

September 9, 2022

Announcing Astro’s HIPAA and PCI-DSS Compliance

Two more reasons that users who need high levels of data security and protection can count on Astro.

September 1, 2022

How We Track the Growth of Apache Airflow

Find out how we use data to keep track of what’s happening in the Airflow project.

August 22, 2022

Reimagining Airflow for Data Engineers and Data Scientists with the Astro Python SDK

Introducing the fastest way to get started writing Airflow data pipelines.

August 9, 2022

Astro Is Now Available on All Major Cloud Providers

Data teams can now run Astro — the data orchestration platform powered by Airflow — on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, providing access to the latest Airflow updates, smooth integration of your native services, and more time to focus on your pipelines.

August 5, 2022

Everything You Should Know About Airflow 2.3’s New Grid View

Airflow 2.3’s new grid view is a compact, intuitive way to visualize complex representations in Airflow’s UI. Today, we present a detailed overview of the feature.

July 14, 2022

The Astronomer Providers Package — A Better Option for Long-Running Tasks

A deeper dive into this new collection of deferrable operators, hooks, and sensors, which can save money by reducing the resources Airflow consumes.

June 17, 2022

Ventana Research Names Astronomer as a Finalist for Its Digital Innovation Awards

Astronomer is a finalist for the 15th Annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards, which recognize companies for creating innovative technologies.

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