Workflow Scheduling
Trading Airflow + EMR for Temporal + Bauplan: The Mediaset tale

Trading Airflow + EMR for Temporal + Bauplan: The Mediaset tale

4/10/2025

What this post added

This post details Mediaset's migration from a legacy Airflow and AWS EMR/Glue/Athena/Redshift stack to Temporal and Bauplan. It highlights the benefits of using Temporal for orchestration, specifically its durable, replayable workflows with automatic retries and built-in scheduling, which replaced Airflow and improved data freshness from 1 hour to 5 minutes. The post contrasts Temporal's code-centric approach with Airflow's YAML-based debugging and emphasizes Temporal's reliability and ease of use for complex flows.

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