+1! Congrats Feng! On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:59 AM Feng Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
> *Hello everyone,I want to let everyone know that today Google Cloud > launched a new managed service based on Apache Airflow - Cloud Composer[1]. > Now that we have launched into public beta, I wanted to connect with the > community to share why we chose Airflow and our plans for Composer and > involvement with the Airflow community.A year ago we set out to build a > workflow orchestration product for Google Cloud. We strongly believe that > such a system should be based on open source - it’s described as a core > value on our public landing page[2]. We chose Airflow for many reasons, > including the awesome community, its approachability for developers, and > its core concepts. We built Cloud Composer because we wanted to make > Airflow accessible to all Google Cloud customers. We’re also encouraging > these customers to use Airflow outside of Google Cloud - whether it be > another Cloud or on-premise. When we started building Cloud Composer we got > involved in the Airflow community. You have probably seen a few Googlers > submitting pull requests, including myself. We do not plan on forking > Airflow with the release of Cloud Composer and it’s our commitment to > remain involved in the Airflow community as we grow Composer. We will > continue to actively contribute to Airflow and look forward to partnering > with the community. You should expect to see myself and other Googlers > involved in Airflow in the future.Best,Feng[1] > https://cloud.google.com/composer <https://cloud.google.com/composer>[2] > https://cloud.google.com/ <https://cloud.google.com/>* >
