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Date Published
Author
Craig Hubert
Word count
1598
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Expanding data access and exchange within a company involves balancing team autonomy with effective data sharing across multiple teams. At Astronomer, a centralized ecosystem has been developed to manage data more efficiently, allowing data teams to focus on analysis rather than operational tasks. This system leverages Astro, a managed service built on Apache Airflow, to unify siloed data teams. The data science team at Astronomer, led by Steven Hillion and Taylor Merrick, has worked on creating a centralized data warehouse and technical ecosystem to support various teams in their data endeavors, from building dashboards to contributing to the company's data warehouse. The integration of data across the company presents challenges such as maintaining data pipeline operations, but the use of tools like Airflow and Astro facilitates this process. The company aims to democratize data usage by encouraging more employees to contribute to operational DAGs, using a cloud-based IDE to simplify the process, ultimately fostering an environment where data-driven decision-making is accessible to all teams.