Case Study: Foursquare centralizes 9,300 data assets and cuts discovery time 90% on Astro

Key results

The challenge

Foursquare delivers location-based intelligence, processing billions of daily records such as GPS pings and ad impressions. Its data infrastructure was fragmented across multiple orchestration tools, including self-hosted Airflow and Luigi, which lacked centralized visibility and hindered productivity and scalability.

The solution

Foursquare adopted Astronomer's Astro platform to unify its data operations under a single control plane and improve the local development experience.

The results, in context

With Astro, Foursquare orchestrated 9,300 data assets from one platform and reported 5x faster pipeline development. The team also documented a 90% reduction in the time needed for data discovery and access.

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