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

In this episode, we dive into Airflow Best Practices and include longer portions of interviews with Alan Cruickshank (1:30), Business Insights and Data Manager at Tails.com, Chris Riccomini (7:27), Principal Software Engineer at WePay, and Bolke de Bruin(31:45), Head of Advanced Analytics Technology at ING. Hope you enjoy! We're still working to get better at podcasting, so please send over any feedback to [email protected]. We really appreciate hearing what the community has to say, and your feedback is hugely helpful in making us better. If you're interested in Astronomer Spacecamp, a guided Airflow development course, you can find more info on that here: https://www.astronomer.io/blog/announcing-astronomer-spacecamp/ We also launched our Managed Airflow on Product Hunt last week- you can check that out here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/apache-airflow-on-astronomer Thanks so much for listening!

Episode 2 of The Airflow Podcast is here to discuss six specific use cases that we’ve seen for Apache Airflow. Here’s the lineup: Patrick Atwater (@patwater), Water Data Projects Manager at ARGO Labs: 2:03-5:35 Maksime Pecherskiy (@mrmaksimize), CDO of San Diego: 5:35-23:06 Scott Halgrim (@shalgrim), Data Engineer at Zapier: 23:06-27:27 Bolke de Bruin (@bolke2028), Head of Advanced Analytics at ING: 27:27-39:46 Chris Riccomini (@criccomini), Principal Software Engineer at WePay: 39:46-54:20 Ben Gregory (@benbeingbin), Data Engineer (and noted craft soda enthusiast) at Astronomer: 54:20-1:14:38 Contribute to our open-source library of Airflow plugins at github.com/airflow-plugins Contact us at www.astronomer.io if you’re interested in Spacecamp: A guided development program to get your team up and running on Airflow.

For the first episode of the Airflow Podcast, we met up with Maxime Beauchemin, creator of Airflow, to explore the motivations behind its creation and the problems it was designed to solve. We asked Maxime for his definition of Airflow, the design principles behind hook/operator use, and his vision for the project. Speaker list: Pete DeJoy - Product at Astronomer Viraj Parekh - Data Engineer at Astronomer Maxime Beauchemin - Software Engineer at Lyft, creator of Airflow Talk mentioned at the end of the podcast- Advanced Data Engineering Patterns with Apache Airflow: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/109227704 Maxime's Blog: https://medium.com/@maximebeauchemin

A sneak peek at our upcoming podcast about Apache Airflow. Featured in this clip (in order of appearance): Pete DeJoy - Product Specialist at Astronomer Patrick Atwater - Water Data Projects Manager at ARGO Labs Maksime Pecherskiy - Chief Data Officer of the City of San Diego Bolke de Bruin - Head of Advanced Analytics at ING