FreightWaves, a company that provides real-time market intelligence for the logistics industry, faced significant challenges in managing their data engineering operations. They struggled with a scattered microservices setup, painful development cycles, and operational risks due to lack of workflow reliability. To address these issues, they migrated to Astronomer's Astro, a fully managed Apache Airflow service, which provided a rich ecosystem of provider packages for integrating with diverse data sources, local development environments for faster iterations, and centralized workflow management to simplify scaling and maintenance. The migration enabled FreightWaves to streamline their integration of new data partners, enhance developer productivity, and eliminate downtime in daily updates, ensuring customers received uninterrupted insights. With Astronomer's support, FreightWaves was able to transform their data engineering practices, unlock resources for innovation and experimentation, and onboard new data sources seamlessly.