Apache Airflow Created at Airbnb

Maxime Beauchemin, then a data engineer at Airbnb, created Airflow as an internal solution to manage and orchestrate the company's growing number of complex data pipelines.

Significance

This event marked the birth of the core technology that Google Cloud Composer would later leverage and provide as a managed service, fundamentally changing workflow orchestration.

Key facts

Date
2014-10-01
Type
invention
Location
Airbnb, San Francisco, California