(San Francisco, CA and Cincinnati, OH) Apache Airflow is a computer programmer’s tool that is used for
authoring, scheduling and monitoring workflows.
Interestingly, it is also an open source tool. The actual performance, is the ability to
perform complex computational workflows.
This ability, in turn, enables data processing pipelines. For the devops team at a business, Apache
Airflow is ideal for long scripts. To
start, the aforementioned open source tool is capable of executing long
scripts, and, it can maintain a calendar of big data processing batch
jobs. Astronomer, Inc. is a computer
software and technology business that, has placed the future of the business on
Apache Airflow. The future begins with the ability to run, monitor and scale
Apache Airflow clusters for a monthly subscription fee. The latter, can be performed on Astronomer’s internet cloud, or, the individual
business’s internet cloud. Recently;
Astronomer, Inc. announced that, it wishes to make available Apache Airflow as
a monthly subscription service, for a long time. Specifically, the aforementioned business
revealed that, it has secured $5.7 million USD in a funding round. As part of the funding round, Tim Guleri will
be joining the board of directors. The
most noteworthy new investors of Astronomer, Inc. are Sierra Ventures, Bain
Capital Ventures, Refinery Ventures, Frontline Capital Ventures, Cincy Tech,
Wireframe Ventures and Grand Ventures.
Grand
Ventures, Wireframe Ventures, Cincy Tech, Frontline Capital Ventures, Refinery
Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures and Sierra Ventures as the most noteworthy new
investors; will be contributing funds.
The funds will be used for the following one thing. The one thing is the continuation of business
growth. In reference to, the
continuation of business growth, the aforementioned is based on Apache Airflow. In other words; if Astronomer, Inc. wants to
continue growing, then it has to do it through Apache Airflow. However, confidence levels are high. Apache Airflow was initially developed at
Airbnb, and, it started as an open source project in the year 2016. Since then; Uber, Lyft, Twitter, Pay Pal and
Apple have all adopted Apache Airflow.
It is reported that, to this date, Apache Airflow has been downloaded
more than 2 million times.
Interestingly, the monthly average is estimated at, 250,000 downloads a month.
However and returning to;
Astronomer, Inc., the aforementioned business operates out of the internet
platform, Astronomer.io. As previously
said, it is a monthly subscription service.
Astronomer.io is built on, and, it is seamlessly integrated with
Kubernetes native services. The
combination of the Kubernetes integration, with, Apache Airflow is Astronomer’s
first product; Astronomer Cloud. The
latter, is the basic package that is meant for devops teams, or, I.T.
teams. As a basic package monthly
service, Astronomer Cloud, provides the use of Apache Airflow. The second product on the Astronomer.io
platform is, Astronomer Enterprise. The
latter, is the next step forward of Astronomer Cloud. Therefore, Astronomer Enterprise is
considered to be a new standard for the ability to scale. The ability to scale, in turn, enables higher
performance and reliability for Apache Airflow enterprise deployments. On Astronomer.io, Astronomer Enterprise comes
with a secure service console. This
secure service console enables a policy engine, and, it enables the ability to
manage Apache Airflow deployments. As
part of the funding round and as previously said, Tim Guleri will be joining
Astronomer’s Board of Directors. Tim Guleri is the Managing Director of Sierra
Ventures. Through a press statement, Mr.
Guleri said the following. “Astronomer
is creating a new multi-billion dollar developer-led category: Programmatic Data Integration Platform. I love big macro trends and innovative teams,
and I found that in Astronomer. We look
forward to working with their talented leadership team in its next phase of
growth.”
Maxime Beauchemin is the Creator of
Apache Airflow. Additionally, she is
also a Strategic Consultant at Astronomer, Inc.
Through a press statement, Ms./Mrs. Beauchemin said the following. “I created Airflow to help data engineers
solve complex data orchestration problems.
It’s very exciting and rewarding to see adoption accelerate to so many
data teams around the world. I’m honored
to continue partnering with Astronomer and the vibrant Airflow Community to
fulfill the vision and potential of Airflow.”
To end, Astronomer, Inc. did release
a press statement. Joe Otto is the Chief
Executive Officer of Astronomer, Inc.
Through a press statement, Mr. Otto said the following. “It’s easy to see why Airflow has reached
such unprecedented levels of adoption by data engineering teams across the
globe. With this financing, we are
directing more investment toward the Apache Airflow project to bolster the
already impressive capabilities of Airflow, and are partnering with leading
world wide organizations to improve the efficiency of their complex data flows
and create a new standard for data orchestration in the modern
enterprise.” As previously stated;
Astronomer, Inc. recently announced that, it wishes to make available Apache
Airflow as a monthly subscription service, for a long time. Specifically, the aforementioned business
revealed that, it has secured $5.7 million USD in a funding round. As part of the funding round, Tim Guleri will
be joining the board of directors.
Lastly; the most noteworthy new investors of Astronomer, Inc. are Sierra
Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Refinery Ventures, Frontline Capital Ventures,
Cincy Tech, Wireframe Ventures and Grand Ventures.
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