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More often I see two or maybe even more software products with the same name. In this case Apache Airflow. The two products serve a totally different purpose. I

More often I see two or maybe even more software products with the same name. In this case Apache Airflow. The two products serve a totally different purpose. I guess for marketing it would be better to have a unique name.

jennyholzer 2y ago
I think it's beneficial for the product's name to be similar to AirDrop. How popular is Apache Airflow? Looking at their website it seems to be a dead product.
- drawnwren 2y ago
  Is this a joke? I'd put Airflow almost on the level of postgres in terms of popularity (it's the most popular workflow manager).
- VTimofeenko 2y ago
  It's in use in _a lot_ of data pipelines.
- lubosm 2y ago
  Still, it was only one Google search away.
- nonameiguess 2y ago
  It's not even remotely close to a dead product. I work in platform-layer consulting where the services are quite often for customers who run ML and other data pipelines and Airflow is overwhelmingly the most popular DAG orchestration tool they're using. I'm very curious what even gives you that impression. If you follow the link to their Github, it's got 38.5k stars, 14.6k forks, 3190 contributors, 92 releases, the most recent commit is from an hour ago. The most recent release is from last month.
  - staticautomatic 2y ago
    Plus everybody on Cloud Composer.
- ajoseps 2y ago
  it’s extremely popular
- deleted 2y ago
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- mastazi 2y ago
  I guess that Apache Airflow is more popular than the one linked by OP. Making a Google search for "airflow" in an incognito tab, looking at page 1, I see 5 results related to Apache Airflow, one result related to the OP, and a couple related to air conditioning (this was on Google Australia).
- NeutralCrane 2y ago
  Apache Airflow is extremely popular and one of the most commonly used frameworks in data engineering. I guarantee you it is more popular than this Airflow by an order of magnitude or more.
- StarlaAtNight 2y ago
  Lol! https://star-history.com/#Apache/airflow&Date https://star-history.com/#Apache/airflow&Date
ianburrell 2y ago
I think we should start putting the creator name in front of the app name. This seems to be by Bitcave company so it would be Bitcave Airflow vs Apache Airflow. It would be fine to shorten the name with context but use the full name to distinguish.
- adammarples 2y ago
  It's really Astronomer Airflow now
  - cicloid 2y ago
    Isn’t that just a distro, similar to what AWS also distributes as Airflow, I think it’s called Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)
    - adammarples 2y ago
      I thought Apache had donated the project to astronomer to maintain but I guess not
blamazon 2y ago
Clearly the solution is either UUIDs for every product or Fulfilment By Amazon style randomly generated brand names like UGRTRPY.

jennyholzer 2y ago

I think it's beneficial for the product's name to be similar to AirDrop. How popular is Apache Airflow? Looking at their website it seems to be a dead product.

drawnwren 2y ago
Is this a joke? I'd put Airflow almost on the level of postgres in terms of popularity (it's the most popular workflow manager).
VTimofeenko 2y ago
It's in use in _a lot_ of data pipelines.
lubosm 2y ago
Still, it was only one Google search away.
nonameiguess 2y ago
It's not even remotely close to a dead product. I work in platform-layer consulting where the services are quite often for customers who run ML and other data pipelines and Airflow is overwhelmingly the most popular DAG orchestration tool they're using. I'm very curious what even gives you that impression. If you follow the link to their Github, it's got 38.5k stars, 14.6k forks, 3190 contributors, 92 releases, the most recent commit is from an hour ago. The most recent release is from last month.
- staticautomatic 2y ago
  Plus everybody on Cloud Composer.
ajoseps 2y ago
it’s extremely popular
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mastazi 2y ago
I guess that Apache Airflow is more popular than the one linked by OP. Making a Google search for "airflow" in an incognito tab, looking at page 1, I see 5 results related to Apache Airflow, one result related to the OP, and a couple related to air conditioning (this was on Google Australia).
NeutralCrane 2y ago
Apache Airflow is extremely popular and one of the most commonly used frameworks in data engineering. I guarantee you it is more popular than this Airflow by an order of magnitude or more.
StarlaAtNight 2y ago
Lol! https://star-history.com/#Apache/airflow&Date https://star-history.com/#Apache/airflow&Date

ianburrell 2y ago

I think we should start putting the creator name in front of the app name. This seems to be by Bitcave company so it would be Bitcave Airflow vs Apache Airflow. It would be fine to shorten the name with context but use the full name to distinguish.

adammarples 2y ago
It's really Astronomer Airflow now
- cicloid 2y ago
  Isn’t that just a distro, similar to what AWS also distributes as Airflow, I think it’s called Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)
  - adammarples 2y ago
    I thought Apache had donated the project to astronomer to maintain but I guess not

blamazon 2y ago

Clearly the solution is either UUIDs for every product or Fulfilment By Amazon style randomly generated brand names like UGRTRPY.