The Data Flowcast: Mastering Apache Airflow ® for Data Engineering and AI

Data orchestration is evolving faster than ever and Apache Airflow 3 is set to revolutionize how enterprises handle complex workflows. In this episode, we dive into the exciting advancements with Vikram Koka , Chief Strategy Officer at Astronomer and PMC Member at The Apache Software Foundation . Vikram shares his insights on the evolution of Airflow and its pivotal role in shaping modern data-dri...

Data and AI are revolutionizing HR, empowering leaders to measure performance and drive strategic decisions like never before.  In this episode, we explore the transformation of HR technology with Guy Dassa , Chief Technology Officer at 15Five , as he shares insights into their evolving data platform. Guy discusses how 15Five equips HR leaders with tools to measure and take action on team per...

Unlocking engineering productivity goes beyond coding — it’s about managing knowledge efficiently. In this episode, we explore the innovative ways in which Dosu leverages Airflow for data orchestration and supports the Airflow project.  Devin Stein , Founder of Dosu , shares his insights on how engineering teams can focus on value-added work by automating knowledge management. Devin dives int...

Harnessing data at scale is the key to driving innovation in autonomous vehicle technology. In this episode, we uncover how advanced orchestration tools are transforming machine learning operations in the automotive industry. Serjesh Sharma, Supervisor ADAS Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) at Ford Motor Company, joins us to discuss the challenges and innovations his team faces working to enhanc...

Data failures are inevitable but how you manage them can define the success of your operations. In this episode, we dive deep into the challenges of data engineering and AI with Brendan Frick, Senior Engineering Manager, Data at GumGum. Brendan shares his unique approach to managing task failures and DAG issues in a high-stakes ad-tech environment. Brendan discusses how GumGum leverages Apache Air...

A 13% reduction in failure rates — this is how two data scientists at Astronomer revolutionized their data pipelines using Apache Airflow. In this episode, we enter the world of data orchestration and AI with Maggie Stark and Marion Azoulai, both Senior Data Scientists at Astronomer. Maggie and Marion discuss how their team re-architected their use of Airflow to improve scalability, reliability an...

Mastering the flow of data is essential for driving innovation and efficiency in today’s competitive landscape. In this episode, we explore the evolution of data orchestration and the pivotal role of Apache Airflow in modern data workflows. Ben Tallman, Chief Technology Officer at M Science, joins us and shares his extensive experience with Airflow, detailing its early adoption, evolution and the...

Welcome to The Data Flowcast: Mastering Airflow for Data Engineering & AI — the podcast where we keep you up to date with insights and ideas propelling the Airflow community forward. Join us each week, as we explore the current state, future and potential of Airflow with leading thinkers in the community, and discover how best to leverage this workflow management system to meet the ever-evolving n...

Data orchestration is revolutionizing the way companies manage and process data. In this episode, we explore the critical role of data orchestration in modern data workflows and how Apache Airflow is used to enhance data processing and AI model deployment. Hannan Kravitz, Data Engineering Team Leader at Artlist, joins us to share his insights on leveraging Airflow for data engineering and its impa...

Data engineering is constantly evolving and staying ahead means mastering tools like Apache Airflow. In this episode, we explore the world of data engineering with Alexandre Magno Lima Martins, Senior Data Engineer at Teya. Alexandre talks about optimizing data workflows and the smart solutions they've created at Teya to make data processing easier and more efficient. Key Takeaways: (02:01) Alexan...

Managing data workflows well can change the game for any company. In this episode, we talk about how Airflow makes this possible. Larry Komenda, Chief Technology Officer at Campbell, shares how Airflow supports their operations and improves efficiency. Larry discusses his role at Campbell, their switch to Airflow, and its impact. We look at their strategies for testing and maintaining reliable wor...

The world of timekeeping for knowledge workers is transforming through the use of AI and machine learning. Understanding how to leverage these technologies is crucial for improving efficiency and productivity. In this episode, we’re joined by Vincent La, Principal Data Scientist at Laurel, and Jim Howard, Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Laurel, to explore the implementation of AI in automat...

Discover the cutting-edge methods Vibrant Planet uses to revolutionize geospatial data processing and resource management. In this episode, we delve into the intricacies of scaling geospatial data processing and resource allocation with experts from Vibrant Planet. Joining us are Cyrus Dukart, Engineering Lead, and David Sacerdote, Staff Software Engineer, who share their innovative approaches to...

The world of data orchestration and machine learning is rapidly evolving, and tools like Apache Airflow are at the forefront of these changes. Understanding how to effectively utilize these tools can significantly enhance data processing and AI model deployment. This episode features Julian LaNeve, CTO at Astronomer, and David Xue, Machine Learning Engineer at Astronomer. They delve into the intri...

Understanding the critical role of data integration and management is essential for driving business success, particularly in a dynamic environment like a luxury casino resort. In this episode, we sit down with Siva Krishna Yetukuri, Cloud Data Architect at Wynn Las Vegas, to explore how Airflow and other tools are transforming data workflows and customer experiences at Wynn Las Vegas. Key Takeawa...

The integration of data and AI in sports is transforming how teams strategize and perform. Understanding how to harness this technology is key to staying competitive in the rapidly evolving landscape of baseball. In this episode, we sit down with Alexander Booth, Assistant Director of Research and Development at Texas Rangers Baseball Club, to explore the intersection of big data, AI and baseball...

Welcome back to the Airflow Podcast. This week, we met up with Ben Wisegarver, a staff data scientist at Reddit who runs their data warehousing and data engineering functions. Reddit users generate petabytes of data every day that needs to be processed, stored, and analyzed by a wide breadth of backend services. Our conversation with Ben touches on everything from Airflow as a tool for career mobi...

Welcome back to the Airflow Podcast. This week, we met up with Albert Franzi and Carlos Escura from Typeform. Typeform is a tool that allows you to build beautiful interactive forms that you can use for a wide variety of use cases, including customer surveys, employee engagement, product feedback, and market research to name a few. In our conversation, we discussed Airflow as a tool for GDPR compl...

After a bit of a break, we're back with the third official episode bundle of The Airflow Podcast. In this batch, we'll get a little bit deeper with current Airflow users and maintainers on core fundamental concepts in data engineering, architectures for operating modern data platforms at scale, and the process of maintaining and operating Airflow, specifically as we go through the release process...

This week, we linked up with Airflow release manager, core committer, and Astronomer platform engineer Ash Berlin-Taylor to discuss the Airflow 2.0 roadmap [1]. There is some great stuff in the works around performance, autoscaling, and usability that we're excited about. In this episode, Ash lends his thoughts on the design, implementation, and value-add around all of the upcoming features, inclu...

This week, we had the pleasure of meeting up with Jarek Potiuk, Principal Software Engineer at Polidea and Apache Airflow committer, to discuss his most recent contribution to the community, Airflow Breeze. Jarek deeply values developer productivity and realized while building a team of Airflow committers that, in order to open a PR on the project, passing unit tests and waiting for the CI build w...

This episode kicks off season 2 of The Airflow Podcast. In this next season, we'll focus on the future of Airflow and chat with leading members of the community to paint a picture of what's to come. We're pumped to be diving back into this project and look forward to the great conversations we have lined up. This week, we chatted with James Malone, Product Manager of Google's Cloud Composer. James...

This week, we met up with Ash Berlin-Taylor to discuss the recent 1.10 release, what it's like to be a release manager for an open source project, Airflow's bid to graduate from incubating status, and the next phase of Airflow project development. As mentioned in our podcast intro, we at Astronomer are hiring Data Engineers who are passionate about contributing to open source and making Airflow gr...

This time, we met up with WePay's Joy Gao to talk through her work on the RBAC components in the recent Airflow 1.10 release. We dove deep into what inspired her work and took some time to discuss what it's like to be a woman contributing to a predominately male open-source community. Hope you enjoy! If you'd like to get started using Airflow in your org, check out our recently-launched Spacecamp...

In this episode, we dove into the relationship between Airflow and Kuberenetes and interviewed Daniel Imberman, Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg (1:30), and Greg Neiheisel, CTO here at Astronomer (37:31). Daniel has done most of the work on the Kubernetes executor for Airflow and Greg plans to take on a chunk of the development going forward, so it was really interesting to hear both of their...