(Re)Making Cirrus: Reflections on five years spent building an open-source data orchestrator

Cirrus, Element 84&rsquo;s open-source data orchestration framework, recently turned five years old — and we&rsquo;ve rebuilt it at least three times along the way. This is a retrospective on where Cirrus came from, from its origins in NASA&rsquo;s Cumulus through the STAC Workflows idea, the project CLI, the SWOOP detour, and finally the v1.0.0 release, plus a look at where it&rsquo;s headed…