Case Study: CRED achieves faster, more reliable data pipelines with Astronomer’s Astro

CRED cuts merchant reporting time by 3-4 hours a day with Astronomer

CRED, a members-only bill-payment platform in India, faced challenges scaling its data orchestration after migrating from a siloed system of cron jobs and Apache NiFi to self-managed Apache Airflow. While Airflow improved reliability, the data infrastructure team, led by Deepanshu Rai, found managing and upgrading the platform to be a significant operational burden, requiring considerable time and dedicated SRE resources. This led them to seek a fully managed solution from vendor Astronomer, Inc.

By implementing Astronomer's Astro, a fully managed Airflow service, CRED eliminated infrastructure management overhead. The solution provided an intuitive UI, robust alerting, and reliable deployment processes. The results included improved pipeline reliability, significant time savings—automating a merchant report process that previously took 3-4 hours daily—and the ability to meet aggressive service-level agreements, all while reducing the required cloud resources.

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