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Case Study: Autodesk migrates 536 DAGs to Airflow on Astro in ~12 weeks

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Key facts · TL;DR
Company
Autodesk
Industry
Software
Challenge
Legacy Apache Oozie couldn't support cloud transformation or modern DataOps
Headline result
Autodesk migrated 536 legacy Oozie DAGs to Airflow across 25 data-engineering teams in about 12 weeks, finishing ahead of schedule, with Astronomer

Key results

536
Oozie DAGs migrated to Airflow
25
Data-engineering teams involved
~12 weeks
Migration timeline
Completed ahead of schedule

The challenge

Autodesk builds design and engineering software including AutoCAD. Its legacy Apache Oozie workflow-management system could not support cloud-transformation initiatives, modern DataOps practices, or integration with cloud services and ML tools.

The solution

Autodesk migrated to Astronomer's Airflow-powered orchestration platform with Professional Services support.

This was by far the best professional services experience I've ever had.

NW
Nick Wilson
Senior Manager, Autodesk Platform Team

The results, in context

With Astronomer, Autodesk migrated 536 Oozie DAGs to Airflow across 25 data-engineering teams in roughly 12 weeks, completing the project ahead of schedule. Teams reported spending less time fixing outages and more on product engineering.

Products used

Astronomer AstroAstronomer Apache AirflowAstronomer Astronomer Professional Services