From maintenance to innovation: Checking in on Checkout.com’s Cloud Composer 3 migration
Google CloudData engineering teams often face a “Day 2” operational reality after building a data platform: the ongoing work of maintaining the orchestrator itself. For the Data Platform team at Checkout.com, managing a self-hosted Apache Airflow environment on another hyperscaler was consuming time the team wanted to spend elsewhere as server management, patching, and incident response were pulling focus from building…