10 years after its creation, Airflow is stronger than ever: in last year’s Airflow survey, 81% of users said Airflow is important or very important to their business, 87% said their Airflow usage has grown over time, and 92% said they would recommend Airflow. In this panel discussion, we’ll celebrate a decade of Airflow and delve into how it became the highly recommended industry standard it is today, including history, pivotal moments, and the role of the community. Our panel of seasoned experts will also talk about where Airflow is going next, including future use cases like generative AI and the highly anticipated Airflow 3.0. Don’t miss this insightful exploration into one of the most influential tools in the data landscape.

Over the last few years, we’ve spent countless hours talking to data engineers from everywhere from Fortune 500s to seed stage startups. In doing so, we’ve learned all about what it takes to deliver a world class Airflow service perfect for everyone. We’ve packaged all that up into The Astro Hypervisor, a new part of our platform that gives users a whole new level of control in Airflow. We’ll talk through how we’ve built this hypervisor and how our customers will be able to use it for autoscaling, tracking the health of Airflow environments and so much more.

Data platform teams often find themselves in a situation where they have to provide Airflow as a service to downstream teams, as more users and use cases in their organization require an orchestrator. In these situations, it’s giving each team it’s own Airflow environment can unlock velocity and actually be lower overhead to maintain than a monolithic environment. This talk will be about things to keep in mind when building an Airflow service that supports several environments, persona of users, and use cases. Namely, we’ll discuss principles to keep in mind when balancing centralized control over the data platform with decentralized teams using Airflow in a way that they’ll need. This will include things around observability, developer productivity, security, and infrastructure. We’ll also talk about day 2 concerns around overheard, infrastructure maintenance, and other tradeoffs to consider.

Astronomer is focused on improving Airflow’s user experience through the entire lifecycle — from authoring + testing DAGs, to building containers and deploying the DAGs, to running and monitoring both the DAGs and the infrastructure that they are operating within — with an eye towards increased security and governance as well. In this talk we walk you through some current UX challenges, an overview of how the Astronomer platform addresses the major challenges, and also provide sneak peek of the things that we’re working on in the coming months to improve Airflow’s user experience. This is a sponsored talk, presented by Astronomer .