The Origins of Airflow

The Data Flowcast: Mastering Airflow for Data Engineering & AI

For the first episode of the Airflow Podcast, we met up with Maxime Beauchemin, creator of Airflow, to explore the motivations behind its creation and the problems it was designed to solve. We asked Maxime for his definition of Airflow, the design principles behind hook/operator use, and his vision for the project. Speaker list: Pete DeJoy - Product at Astronomer Viraj Parekh - Data Engineer at Astronomer Maxime Beauchemin - Software Engineer at Lyft, creator of Airflow Talk mentioned at the end of the podcast- Advanced Data Engineering Patterns with Apache Airflow: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/109227704 Maxime's Blog: https://medium.com/@maximebeauchemin