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Opinion
Douetteau: Airflow and JupyterLab don't go far enough for enterprise data science
“Those two projects are, like, very interesting, but to some extent don't go far enough, because what you really want, at the end of the day, is the ability to capture, within the platform, everything related to, ah, to your data science project.”
Florian Douetteau Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 12:21 The Launch of Dataiku 5 // Florian Douetteau, Dataiku (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Insight
Ben Rogojan: Non-Big Tech data engineers must manage their own pipeline tooling
“At Facebook, you essentially have your internal airflow that a different team runs, and you can just push files to it and it picks up the data pipelines, you know, automatically. Whereas in most other companies, you might be the person that has to even manage,…”
Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 13:55 Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
Assertion Supported
Prefect founder Jeremiah Lowin launched it after facing constraints changing Airflow
“Jeremiah was a primary contributor to Airflow, wanted to make some changes, wasn't able to do so, and went and started went and started Prefect.”
Nick Schrock Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 20:21 Fireside Chat: Nick Schrock (Founder & CEO, Elementl) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Kedro leaves pipeline scheduling and failure monitoring to Airflow and Dagster
“How, what time will this pipeline run? How will I know if it failed? We'll leave those tools to Dagster, Airflow, Prefect, Luigi, and many others to actually handle for you, because they do that really well.”
Kedro Product Manager Feb 17, 2021 ▶ 6:25 Introducing Kedro
Assertion Supported
Riot Games deployed machine learning models using Apache Airflow
“One of the teams at Riot Games was like deploying their ML models and they were using Airflow.”
Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 8:50 Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
Assertion Supported
Apache Airflow was created in 2014 at Airbnb
“Airflow was founded in 2014 at Airbnb, and it's an absolutely viral open source project.”
Viraj Parekh Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 3:26 Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh
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