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Astro by Astronomer

Score10 out of 10

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What is Astro by Astronomer?

For data teams looking to increase the availability of trusted data, Astronomer provides Astro, a data orchestration platform, powered by Airflow. Astro enables data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to build, run, and observe pipelines-as-code.

Astronomer is the driving force behind Apache Airflow™, the de facto standard for expressing data flows as code. Airflow is downloaded more than 8 million times each month and is used by hundreds of thousands of teams around the world.

Astronomer - Enterprise Airflow management made easy

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Astronomer airflow provides easy to use, scalable workflow & dependency management interface. Airflow supports use cases for ingestion, data preparation, and load. Primarily used as enterprise big data pipeline management and data quality checks. Astronomer also provides critical support for alerting and notifications.

Pros

  • Workflow management
  • Wide availability of plugins
  • Dependency management on upstream

Cons

  • More language agnostic
  • Flexible fork and join capabilities
  • Near real time UI updates in case of deployment of enhanced DAGs

Most Important Features

  • Workflow management
  • Easy to manage
  • Dependency management between data flows

Return on Investment

  • It helps to build scalable, available and low maintenance workloads
  • Integrated Alerts and notifications helps to detect load issues in the early stages
  • Ensures meeting data SLAs

Other Software Used

Apache Hive, Apache Spark