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Case Study: WeWork cuts infrastructure-management time 67% with Astro

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Key facts · TL;DR

Company

WeWork

Industry

Real Estate

Challenge

Lean data team burdened by self-hosted Airflow and Cloud Composer maintenance

Headline result

WeWork reduced infrastructure-management time by 67% and upgrade-cycle time by more than 95% after moving its lean data team to Astro

Key results

67%

Reduction in infrastructure management time

>95%

Reduction in upgrade cycle time

Upgrades now take weeks instead of years

60%

Reduction in troubleshooting time

The challenge

WeWork, a global flexible-workspace provider, had a lean data team after staff reductions. Its self-hosted Airflow deployment and Google Cloud Composer both demanded heavy maintenance, and a single Airflow 1.0-to-2.0 upgrade had taken over two years.

The solution

WeWork adopted Astronomer's Astro platform for its Airflow expertise, simplified upgrades, and observability features such as SLA tracking.

“Astronomer makes doing more with less possible.”
YZ
You Zhou
Director of Data Engineering, WeWork

The results, in context

On Astro, WeWork reported a 67% reduction in infrastructure-management time, a more than 95% reduction in upgrade-cycle time, and a 60% reduction in troubleshooting time. Airflow upgrades that once took years now take weeks.

Products used

Astronomer AstroAstronomer Apache Airflow