Case Study: Mapbox achieves faster developer workflows and lower costs with Dagster Labs

Incrementally Adopting Dagster at Mapbox

Mapbox, a provider of mapping and location data services, faced significant challenges with its legacy Airflow orchestration system. Their developer productivity was hampered by slow development cycles and high costs, as testing required deploying code to production infrastructure. They needed a solution that could improve their workflow without forcing a complete and risky overhaul of their existing, business-critical systems.

Dagster provided a solution through its Airflow integration, allowing Mapbox to incrementally adopt its platform. They compiled Dagster pipelines into Airflow DAGs, enabling local testing with ephemeral resources that slashed development costs by over 50%. This integration from Dagster dramatically improved productivity, reducing the time for a core data processing task from days or weeks down to just 1-2 hours.

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