The Data Flowcast: Mastering Apache Airflow ® for Data Engineering and AI
AstronomerWelcome to The Data Flowcast: Mastering Apache Airflow ® for Data Engineering and 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-... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 121 | Founded | 9 years ago |
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At Lyft, a small data engineering team supports dozens of scientists and analysts who tune driver pay configurations on demand, all under SOX controls. In this episode, Ken Obata, Senior Software Engineer at Lyft, joins Kenten Danas to walk through h... more
Running Airflow with a one-person data engineering team means every decision about cost, tooling, and best practices has to earn its keep. In this episode, Kenten sits down with Aniruddha Sengupta, Staff Data Engineer at Insignis, to talk through how... more
Scaling Airflow to over 1,000 active DAGs on a team of 3-4 engineers takes structure. In this episode, Kenten Danas talks with Matt Stavinga, Data Engineer at Idelic (now part of Descartes), about how his team standardized DAG creation and logging, b... more
Running LLMs over sensitive data means external APIs are off the table, but open-weight models still need reproducibility, validation, and a paper trail before downstream systems can depend on their output. In this episode, Kenten is joined by Chhaya... more
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- Great way to learn about what data teams are doing in 2024
[disclaimer: review from former podcast host that has since been replaced by much better voices!]
If you’re wondering why a data platform and team is important to everyone - from the World Series champion Texas Rangers to worldwide casinos like Wynn to financial services companies - look no further. The techniques
Apple Podcasts5Pqdthorne
United States2 years ago - Amazing!
Loved the show, it helped me wrap my head around most of Airflow’s concepts and how to use different constructs correctly.
The people invited were top quality and very involved in Airflow development and usage.
Apple Podcasts5JeanPieroHM
Germany7 years ago - Helped me a lot as I began exploring Airflow
I had kept hearing folks talk about airflow, and stumbled across the astronomer podcast as I began trying to learn more. I’ve been quite impressed so far, and am hoping to add airflow to my toolkit
Apple Podcasts5ascloydUnited States8 years ago - Use cases
Very helpful to hear how industry leaders are using Airflow!
Apple Podcasts5WrecklessshivUnited States8 years ago - Great primer for Data Engineering
If you're new to the field and want to learn techniques, tools, and best practices, this is a great place to start.
Apple Podcasts5AppmagnetUnited States9 years ago
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The show centers on practical, real-world use of Apache Airflow in data engineering and AI contexts, with episodes ranging from migrations of legacy schedulers to large-scale enterprise data platforms, to building AI-powered workflows and governance around data assets. Guests and topics frequently emphasize orchestration strategies, observability, security, and cost management, often highlighting how managed services and integrations (e.g., Astronomer/Astro, DBT, Cosmos) enable scalable, production-ready pipelines. A standout trait is the heavy focus on concrete, actionable patterns—like DAG design, event-driven scheduling, and AI-enabled tooling—while maintaining a strong sense of community through community-driven updates and open-source ... more
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