March 2, 2022
Scaling Up Apache Airflow to Enterprise Level
Rabobank the Netherlands is building an enterprise-grade data mesh. Our team was tasked with implementing Apache Airflow as the de facto orchestration tool. For hundreds of teams.
Looking back, we can finally say we did it. Airflow is now hosting over 50 teams, running smoothly, linking data delivery streams with data consumption streams. However, we did not get to this point without making our fair share of mistakes.
This session will cover every step of our journey, including: dealing with user team proficiency (or the lack thereof), struggling with the Kubernetes Executor, trying our hand at zero-downtime deployments, getting our scaling right, and fighting with the PostgreSQL database backend.
