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Data Scientist using Astronomer for custom ETLs and ML
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it is flexible, well documented, has good support. Its UI is pleasing too. It's fast, allows to schedule lots differents jobs by nature (data engineering, ML models, MLOps, etc). It's overall a fantastic orchestration service.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish it was easier to see duration of each task over the recent runs.
I also wish we didn't have to have all our ETLs in one github repository as it makes going from dev to prod messy at times.
I would love to see even more training for new people. As an experienced user it clearly has a high learning curve and find myself having to explain stuff a lot to people!
Quite a lot of breaking changes with google dependencies especially - can be quite time consuming to just maintain the instances running despite no changes to code.
I also wish we didn't have to have all our ETLs in one github repository as it makes going from dev to prod messy at times.
I would love to see even more training for new people. As an experienced user it clearly has a high learning curve and find myself having to explain stuff a lot to people!
Quite a lot of breaking changes with google dependencies especially - can be quite time consuming to just maintain the instances running despite no changes to code.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Primarily it is a simple interface to orchestrate jobs on GCP - that's it. It allows me to run big data jobs fluidly, and allows me to easily see when a job hasn't run.
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Excelent Airflow as a Service Platform
What do you like best about the product?
With Astronomer we don't need to worry about the infrastructure, everything is abstracted to us, we just need to click a few times to implement a new deployment (very easy) access the Astronomer UI, and start doing things. This improved our team's speed to develop new solutions a lot! Astronomer became our daily tool for workflow management. Avoiding wasting time with deployments and machines and focusing on what is truly important, the business. Having the most recent version of airflow available one day after the release is a plus, we can count on the bug fixes and new features as fast as possible (faster than if we had our airflow solution or any other SaaS). The airflow support team has helped us to unblock many problems, most of them about how Airflow works and the best use of the tool, also we were able to deploy easily every single integration that we use with our current cloud provider.
What do you dislike about the product?
Astronomer still lacks some "premium features", something that is not available at opensource version of Airflow. I know that we have some extra tools like lineage (this one needs a lot more of attention from astronomers team to be something easy and valid to use) and the "cloud ide" which is a great idea however needs more completeness, for example it lacks the ability to simply install private libraries or connect with macro functions (like jinja) from our SQL definition.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Astronomer is our main workflow tool. We use it for all the data pipelines that we create. Orchestrating every data transformation using SQL + Jinja and with Redshift as a data warehouse, we are able to run 100% of our data platform workflows inside Astronomer. The new pricing model based not on task execution but in resources usage was a game change for us! Now we can create dags as they should, using all the best practices.
Stable Platform with good service
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that they have come a long way from being a startup supporting opensource airflow to becoming an enterprise focusing on what their customers want. They have a history of feature rich development to provide best cutomer support. Their dev and production enviornment deployment via CI/CD provide an ease of implementation and integration of Airflow for their customers. I find the system easy to use that gives me confidence. They had their ups and downs as an orgination but they have come a long way from there. I am happy to say Fanduel 's decion to use Astronomer has proven to be a good success.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are no major problems in using Astro but some quirks here and there. Overall I like the way they are building the product and support Airflow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
They are providing a stable platform on Kubernetes to run our big workload orchestration of around thousand data piplines and they are doing a very good job.
If you have the capital, it's the best of the bunch
What do you like best about the product?
Of the three best known managed Airflow options (MWAA, Cloud Composer, Astronomer), I think Astronomer is the most streamlined and easy-to-use. The Docker image/runtime is well thought out, and the hybrid managed Dataplane option has sensible ways of doing things and removes the burden of maintaining the deployment. I love the Astro CLI and how easy it is to customize the base Airflow image they provide. The docs are good and they are closest to the actual core Airflow community.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricier than the other two, but IMO the extra features are well worth it. Charging by task run also requires care. Outside of pricing/cost though... it's great. I gave them a 9 instead of a 10 because of the cost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Workflow orchestration/data pipelines.
Smooth and Amazing
What do you like best about the product?
The customer support and reliability, also easy to implement.
What do you dislike about the product?
They can maybe do the alerts more configurable in terms of the data to show in the alert.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Astro solves all the infrastructure support and maintenance, also any updates/patches are 100% managed by astro and they do it really well.
Great option for easy Airflow
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to implement and maintain. Setup is pretty quick and the painful parts of managing Airflow are removed. Deploying and upgrading are simple. Also very easy to get a local environment up and running, which is a big win. The Docker based deployments make it easy to test out version upgrading locally before deploying. Astro CLI is great for implementing a CI/CD process.
Customer service team has been great to work with - very responsive and quick to escalate to more technical team members as needed.
Overall a great option for easy Airflow deployment - I can mostly forget about the infrastrcuture and just focus on pipeline development.
Customer service team has been great to work with - very responsive and quick to escalate to more technical team members as needed.
Overall a great option for easy Airflow deployment - I can mostly forget about the infrastrcuture and just focus on pipeline development.
What do you dislike about the product?
Astronomer has rolled out a few new features and/or products over the past year or so that have looked great in the marketing material and demos, but have been less impressive under the hood. Cloud IDE being the latest. Great potential, just still a bit half baked and not worth encorporating on my current project (yet). Great to see Astro consistently working towards value adding features though.
Relatively high price - probably wouldn't be worth it for smaller use cases or companies.
Relatively high price - probably wouldn't be worth it for smaller use cases or companies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing Airflow - relatively pain free via Astronomer. Great support from their team to helps with any issues - nice to be able to take advantage of their Airflow expertise and experience.
Overall improves Airflow ease of use - in comparison to self managed or other managed options.
Overall improves Airflow ease of use - in comparison to self managed or other managed options.
Best product for a startup
What do you like best about the product?
When working at a startup with limited resources, we don't have time to worry about self-managing Airflow. Astronomer enabled us to get started with Airflow very quickly without the hassel of setting it up ourselves or worrying about as much maintenance. The customer support is amazing. The field engineer assigned to us is very smart and proactive to make sure all of our requirements are met.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike. I've worked at companies where we self-hosted Airflow which was such a hassel. Astronomer makes everything so much easier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
-Don't have to worry about self-hosting
-Less time spent on maintenance
-Local development is so easy
-Deployment processes is very quick and efficient
-Very easy to update requirements
-Thorough documentation
-Less time spent on maintenance
-Local development is so easy
-Deployment processes is very quick and efficient
-Very easy to update requirements
-Thorough documentation
Best Way to take the pain out of Airflow
What do you like best about the product?
I've worked with Airflow for the last 6 year, both administering it myself and using managed services like AWS MWAA. In my opinion Astronomer is the only feasible managed service currently available for Airflow. It's the first managed service I've used that does not entail a surprising number of performance bugs even when used only as an orchestration engine (which generally deferable functionality has resolved), and the only approach I would recommend if you want to also use it as an execution engine in its own right. In our use case, our per deployment costs were cut in half relative to AWS MWAA. Additionally it greatly increases ease of use, so non-engineering teams can make use of it with minimal need for engineering staff once it's set up.
Additionally, customer service is excellent. Always a response time proportional to the level of severity, and even complex bug fixes (generally caused by underlying Airflow libraries, not Astronomer itself) that have popped up had tested fixes available within a few days. If you're using Airflow for a non-trivial, production workload and not managing the cluster yourself, I don't think there's any other way to go than Astronomer.
Additionally, customer service is excellent. Always a response time proportional to the level of severity, and even complex bug fixes (generally caused by underlying Airflow libraries, not Astronomer itself) that have popped up had tested fixes available within a few days. If you're using Airflow for a non-trivial, production workload and not managing the cluster yourself, I don't think there's any other way to go than Astronomer.
What do you dislike about the product?
Typical painpoints of using a managed service and the limited access that entails, particularly around the shared-compute cluster options and lack of CLI access to remote deployments. That they're serious about addressing with developing new features to ease these painpoints shows they take issues of access more seriously than most managed service providers (Airflow-based and beyond).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Complex orchestration of all data ingestion and processing at our company, which ingests data from numerous third party media entities and internally-owned web applications. Will also soon be used in orchestrating MLOps platform
Astronomer Powered Airflow
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of setting up and launching Airflow in production. Suits well for teams which have limited data engineering capacity and allows to focus more on the business logic for the pipelines.
What do you dislike about the product?
Have been using the product for 3 months now. I do not see any limitations per se with the Astro itself. It used to have very limited functionality for integrating dbt projects but with the latest release, this concern is addressed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Astro is solving the major pain point of managing the Airflow instance and allowing users to focus on the actual pipelines. This allowed us to go live in production for our data workload automation in a very short time. ~ 1 Month
Asro literally assists in data engineering work, making it easier and more productive.
What do you like best about the product?
It making it easier and more productive.
What do you dislike about the product?
User events should be more responsive, while we need a more interactive UI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The tool offers a user-friendly solution for managing complex workflows through its intuitive interface. Users can easily create, schedule, and monitor intricate data pipelines, benefiting from enhanced logging and monitoring features.
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