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The latest insights from our team of Apache Airflow® experts.

September 10, 2024

Astro Observe is now in Private Preview: Unifying Data Observability and Orchestration

Whit Moses Product Marketing Manager

Today, we’re excited to announce Astro Observe, which brings new and more robust data observability capabilities to users on Astro, OSS Airflow, Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA), and Google Cloud Composer (GCC).

September 9, 2024

Join Us at Airflow Summit 2024: Discover the Future of Apache Airflow with Astronomer

Join Astronomer at Airflow Summit 2024! Explore Astro, attend expert sessions, and network at our exclusive afterparty. See you there!

September 6, 2024

Customizing LLMs Through Astro

A Cost Sensitive Approach to Scalable Model Personalization Through Airflow

July 18, 2023

Advantages of Hosted Airflow for Your ETL Workflows

Maximize ETL efficiency with hosted Apache Airflow® on Astro, not self-hosting open-source. Benefit from simplified infrastructure management, scalable elasticity, and dedicated support for your workloads.

July 13, 2023

Best Practices for Building an Airflow Service (Part 1)

This guide covers best practices for everything from choosing the right Airflow deployment model to configuring your DAGs for optimal performance.

July 12, 2023

Astronomer and Fivetran Partner to Release Production-Grade ELT Airflow Provider

The new provider will make it easier for organizations to use Airflow to automate and manage their Fivetran pipelines.

June 26, 2023

Astronomer and Snowflake: Unleash the Power of Snowpark Container Services and Apache Airflow®

We are excited to announce the partnership between Astronomer and Snowflake, aimed at revolutionizing the way organizations leverage data and execute their data pipelines.

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

Here’s a look at seven alternatives to MWAA.

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

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