Apache Airflow

“So astronomer focused on the airflow company started in 2018, and it kind of grew out of previously astronomer. The company had started before, and we were focused on something else. We were building a clickstream product. So if you know, like the company segm…”

“The first version we built of that product, we built that backend orchestration piece. We used a cloud native service for that, something called SWF, Simple Workflows. And that was good, but what we found was we needed something a lot more dynamic, and we need…”

“And this funny thing started to happen where we tell customers what our product was powered by, and they'd be more interested in that than the product itself.”

“Somewhere in the hundred to 400 range.”

“Like you could have every internal conversation that you want. You can kind of debate things to no end. You can look at studies about market size and so on and so forth. But when people who are willing to pay say, I will pay you if you can give me an easy butt…”

“In fact, now that you're saying it, I think our most successful email campaign was the subject client was Don't open this email unless you use Apache Airflow. Like, that was the subject line we used.”

“We're still using the APIs for the existing system so that we could migrate, but we have over 2000 workflows running in production.”

“And if I were able to do the things that Prefect does in airflow, I would have.”

“Now it happens that our functionality is a superset of Airflow's functionality.”