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Astro is taking Airflow to the next level
What do you like best about the product?
The docker setup is great for scaling and not having to worry about inconsistent local development, the support provided by the Astro team is unmatched, and the guides/registry provided complement the Airflow repository wonderfully.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far, nothing! If a feature in Astro doesn't already have a guide to use, the support team will help out in a quick and responsive manner. Any feature that needs to be modified can be because of Astro's ability to be customized, so there is nothing that I can say I don't like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main problem that Astro is solving is the issue of inconsistent local development, and the managed docker images that Astronomer provides solve this issue. Now resources don't need to be spent setting up local development and worrying about version differences when deploying DAGs to production.
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The best cloud-managed data orchestration product on the market
What do you like best about the product?
It has aided in building infrastructure that supports CI/CD, environment management, and it's significantly increased the rate at which we can develop, test, and deploy ETL/ELT pipelines for analytics, machine learning, and business insight at our company.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the functionality in my local Apache Airflow instance is not available in the managed Apache Airflow instances in Astronomer. If they were consistent in functionality, we wouldn't run into environment issues when deploying dags to Astro.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's allowing our business to utilize the benefits of a data orchestration tool such as Apache Airflow without the headache and operational overhead of hosting Apache Airflow in a cloud platform ourselves.
Deploying Airflow for your Enterprise Level Needs Can be Challenging; Don't go Alone, Use Astronomer
What do you like best about the product?
Onboarding process & Technical support. Airflow and AWS Configuration Expertise. ROI is unmatched vs. building teams internally to build Enterprise Airflow. Ability to implement the newest version of Airflow without the headaches of managing EKS clusters on AWS. Their team is always there to provide support and make recommendations to improve our DAG ecosystem.
What do you dislike about the product?
I hope that Airflow will grow and be able to do larger data movement operations and eventually replace the need for separate Spark clusters. The expansion of XCOM's and Dynamic Task instances has been great but would still like to see more.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing infrastructure and code of Airflow. Plus, the ability to develop code locally and push through a well-defined CICD process is a big seller for us.
Excellent platform
What do you like best about the product?
Great support and documentation from Astro.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the RCA from support is unclear.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our org uses Astro Cloud for data pipelines and ETL activities.
My 'seamless' experience with Astronomer
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to create multiple deployments inside a single workspace or as per user-types and an all-new analytics page where we can see the DAGrun statistics. This helps the platform keep a check on resource usage and gives us more options to look out for a while monitoring our deployments.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the IAM needs attention as it does not help provide different permissions to users inside the same workspace. Right now individual users are able to create their own deployments inside a workspace, whereas that is not required. Hopefully Astronomer will look into this issue soon.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Astro helps in categorizing workspaces for different user types or deployment types. This benefits my company and me by separating our deployments for different user groups eg. Data Engineers and Data Analysts.
Astro has been great, especially when compared to other hosted solutions in the market.
What do you like best about the product?
The CLI/Container-based approach is easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
We wish we could scale to 0 workers with an AWS backend.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We want to improve our developer experience and boost our uptime by getting away from self-managed infra.
Easy transition from MWAA, hit few snags along the way
What do you like best about the product?
Setup and deployment of Astronomer was easy, and it gets out of the way to make our Airflow environment simple to work with.
What do you dislike about the product?
A few things are hidden behind the CLI tool, and require using hidden features to, for example, mount volumes when spinning up the containers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
MWAA was hanging on "queued" a lot, which would silently cause our pipeline to fail. We need a more reliable Airflow deployment, and we were able to get that in Astronomer after some tweaking. It also makes the dev process a lot easier, since mwaa-local-runner is kind of a pain to use.
Happy to be working in Astronomer!
What do you like best about the product?
I love the easy CLI integrations, Docker-based deployments, and ease of development on Astro. These features make it a significant improvement over Google Cloud Composer.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, so far, it has been great. The only thing I would point out is setting up the secrets manager and environment variables proved to be a bit confusing. But support was great, and we got through it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It makes managing our Airflow instances much easier and provides a significantly improved developer experience. It is speeding up or development cycles and will set us up for a more maintainable and flexible architecture moving forward.
Great product for Data Engineers
What do you like best about the product?
Astro contains all the tooling we had planned on building ourselves internally. Not having to re-invent the wheel is great and saves us time. Having an environment that supports the most recent versions of Airflow is also nice.
What do you dislike about the product?
The OpenLineage offering from Astro is not nearly as robust or well-documented as we expected. The lack of robustness is not a huge deal breaker, but it is somewhat annoying.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Astro provides us (Data Engineer's at FreightWaves) with the most recent and up-to-date tools for developing within Airflow while not having to reinvent the wheel. This helps to increase our development speed and allows us to incorporate engineering best practices into our pipelines.
Data Engineering Manager
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, not having to manage the infrastructure. It makes creating pipelines a breeze.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really, coming form MWAA there are so many more benefits with Astronomer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Observability into pipeline failures, warehouse ingestion processes, and teaching devs from other teams to create efficient data pipelines.
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