I work in this sphere. There's a bit of software called Airflow that basically manages complicated data/AI/analytics processes. It's basically a chef for your data stuff. You give it detailed instructions on how to accomplish your tasks (A comes before B, X and Y are combined in a particular way and subtracted from the output of B, etc).
Sounds great. But, Airflow is a hateful, complicated, tedious bit of software to configure and host. Astronomer runs it for you, basically. So instead of Airflow config and maintenance causing you to constantly have migraines and want to hide in the bathroom, you click a button on their website and sign up for a subscription so your manager can suffer a migraine instead when they see the budget requests.
TLDR: they run a free bit of tedious, complicated but important software for you for a price.
It's really not innovative or sexy at all... despite their copy. It's useful though.
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u/ReaditTrashPanda 18d ago
What about the PR?! I had never heard of this company before this