Astronomer

Astronomer is an American data operations technology company. It positions itself as the commercial steward of Apache Airflow, stating that it has driven every Airflow advancement since 2018, and offers Astro as a way to run Airflow. Its platform is presented as orchestration for data and AI, moving data and agentic workflows from prototype to production, powered by Apache Airflow and augmented with AI. The company describes its Astro Runtime as Airflow re-engineered for speed and scale, with its scheduler, executor, runtime, and infrastructure rebuilt for greater scale, lower latency, and faster recovery. Astronomer also offers professional services, including Astro Kickstarts and Center of Excellence engagements, and markets solutions for industries such as financial services.

Astronomer states that it has driven every Airflow advancement since 2018 and describes itself as the commercial steward of Apache Airflow. It presents Astro as the best way to run Airflow and says it makes sophisticated, massive-scale Airflow deployments work for leading enterprises. The company describes its thesis that the agentic era will run on orchestration, building a context layer for enterprises to run agentic AI in production. It also offers professional services such as Astro Kickstarts and Center of Excellence engagements.

Orchestration for data and AI; commercial steward of Apache Airflow; Astro as the best way to run Airflow.

• Astro

  A commercial platform for running Apache Airflow, described as the best way to run Airflow.

• Astro Runtime

  Described as Airflow re-engineered for speed and scale, with the scheduler, executor, runtime, and infrastructure rebuilt for greater scale, lower latency, and faster recovery.

• Astro Scheduler

  Event-driven scheduling that reacts to new work as it arrives instead of waiting for a polling cycle.

• Astro Executor

  An executor supporting 500,000 concurrent tasks.

• Astro Hypervisor

  Airflow-aware scaling and healing.

1. 1Astronomer: The Best Place to Run Apache Airflow®astronomer.io
2. 2About Us — Astronomerastronomer.io
3. 3Expert Airflow services for your enterprise’s success.astronomer.io
4. 4Orchestrating the Future of Financial Services with Apache Airflowastronomer.io
5. 5Astronomerwikidata.org