Company Research Report: Astronomer
1. Company Overview
Name: Astronomer
Mission: Empowering data teams to enhance their data availability with Astro, a modern data orchestration platform powered by Apache Airflow®.
Founding Information: No information is available.
Key People in the Company:
- Andy Byron - Chief Executive Officer
- Bhanu Sareddy - Chief Customer Officer
- Mike Haas - Chief Revenue Officer
- Julian LaNeve - Chief Technology Officer
- Leo Zheng - Chief Marketing Officer
- Vikram Koka - Chief Strategy Officer
- Christopher Lefelhocz - SVP, R&D
- Pete DeJoy - SVP, Product & Founder
- Mike LeBlanc - SVP, Finance
- Viraj Parekh - Field CTO & Founder
- Greg Neiheisel - Founder & Engineering Fellow
Headquarters:
- New York, NY
- 50 W 23rd Street, 14th floor, New York, NY 10010
- San Jose, CA
- 2580 N 1st Street, Suite 480, San Jose, CA 95131
- San Francisco, CA
- 8 California Street, Suite 700, San Francisco, CA 94111
- Cincinnati, OH
- 231 W 12th Street, Suite E, Cincinnati, OH 25202
Number of Employees: No information is available.
Revenue: No information is available.
Known For: Astronomer is known for its fully-managed platform to take Apache Airflow® to the next level, providing a unified data platform that ensures data is delivered on time, securely, and accurately.
2. Products
Astro
Description: Astro is a unified data platform built on Apache Airflow® that ensures data is delivered on time, securely, and accurately.
Key Features:
- Elastic Scalability: Dynamic scaling of deployments and clusters.
- High Availability: Minimize downtime with queue-based task execution.
- Governance & Observability: Complete oversight and control over data ecosystems.
- Intelligent Infrastructure Management: Proactive monitoring and efficient infrastructure scaling.
- Integration Capabilities: Seamless connectivity with over 1500 integrations.
- Enhanced Productivity: Tools for rapid development, testing, and deployment.
Integrations
Astro supports integration with various platforms and services including:
- dbt Cloud
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- OpenAI
- Great Expectations
- Cohere
- OpenSearch
- pgvector
- Pinecone
- Segment
- Weaviate
- MongoDB
- Tableau
- Airbyte
- Elastisearch
- Docker
- Redis
- Azure
Improved Infrastructure Management
Key Features:
- Self-Healing Workers: Automates detection and termination of non-functional workers.
- Automated Infrastructure Provisioning: Simplifies infrastructure management while ensuring compliance.
- Customer Managed Workload Identity: Enhances security by managing AWS IAM roles.
Developer Tools
Key Features:
- Cloud IDE: Interface to write Airflow pipelines in SQL or vanilla Python.
- Astro CLI: Install, run, and test Airflow from the command line.
- Branch-Based Deployments: Isolated environments for secure development and testing.
- Astro API: Mitigate risks associated with manual processes through control and automation.
Security and Governance
Key Features:
- Single Sign-On (SSO) Enforcement
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- VPC Connectivity: Secure integration with private networks.
- Environment Isolation: Ensures complete data isolation.
- Custom Deployment Roles: Granular access control for compliance and security.
3. Recent Developments
Recent Platform Releases:
- July 2024 Release:
- Unified Workflows with dbt on Astro: Integrated experience for deploying and managing dbt on Astro.
- Improved Pipeline Resilience:
- Universal Metrics Export: Real-time observability.
- Self-Healing Workers.
- Automated Infrastructure Provisioning and Management:
- Customer Managed Workload Identity on AWS.
- Astro Terraform Provider.
- May 2024 Release:
- Governance at Scale:
- Astro Organizational Dashboards for enhanced decision-making.
- Astro API for control and automation.
- Innovation Enhancements:
- GitHub Integration for CI/CD processes.
- Security Enhancements:
- Custom Deployment Roles.
- Customer Managed Identity on GCP and Azure.
Notable Partnerships:
- Strategic Alliance with Microsoft: Offering fully managed Apache Airflow® for Microsoft Azure Customers.
- Investment and Acquisitions:
- Series C funding of $213 million.
- Acquisition of Datakin to scale operations and meet global demand.
New Product Features:
- Cosmos by Astronomer: Provides complete visibility of dbt tasks within Airflow.
- Event-Driven Workflows: Leveraging dynamic tasks, data-aware scheduling, and deferrable operators.
- Dynamic Task Mapping: Faster ETL/ELT processing.
This report contains key information about Astronomer, its products, recent developments, and notable partnerships, providing a comprehensive overview of the company's position in the data orchestration and management industry.