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Airflow in Action: Data Engineering Insights from Burns & McDonnell
Blog post from Astronomer
Post Details
Company
Date Published
Author
Matthew Keep
Word Count
850
Language
English
Hacker News Points
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Summary
Burns & McDonnell, a global design firm, faced challenges with its existing data platform due to disconnected systems and lack of metadata. The company used Apache Airflow® as an orchestrator to create a scalable and trustworthy data platform. This transformation allowed the data engineering team to turn around requests from the business in less than 24 hours, providing reliable, trustworthy, and accessible data across the company.