Airflow in Action: DataOps Insights from 2,200 Pipelines at Instacart

Instacart, a leading grocery technology company, leverages Apache Airflow to orchestrate over 2,200 unique pipelines and 16 million tasks per month across its vast network of large and intricate data pipelines securely, compliantly, and at scale. The company's Data Infrastructure team has built a custom Airflow ecosystem with self-service authoring, infrastructure as code, monitoring, abstractions, and more to support its growth and scalability needs. With the help of Airflow, Instacart aims to maintain a healthy pace in migrating legacy pipelines to a central cluster, ensuring a smooth transition and optimal performance for its data operations.