Context

At Wayfair from 2015-2020, I spent a significant amount of time leading teams that built and leveraged Kronos, a generalized orchestration engine for data warehouses. The engine ended up having quite significant adoption, though it was too tightly coupled to Wayfair technology to be a viable open-source option. Post Wayfair, I realized that though I had a good sense of how Kronos fit into the broader landscape of data orchestration tools - of the time Oozie, Airflow, Luigi, SSIS, and more - and the tools of the future - DBT, etc - there were many who worked extensively with the platform who might not and could benefit from knowing how what they learned fit into the broader landscape.