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Orchestrating Retail Data Pipelines at Saks Global
Saks Global runs one of the largest retail data operations in the US, with around 8 million SKUs flowing across point-of-sale, e-commerce, catalog, and fraud detection systems into Snowflake. In this episode, [Shailesh Kadam](linkedin.com), Architect at [Saks Global](saks.com), joins Kenten to walk through how Airflow acts as the nervous system tying it all together, why they moved from self-managed Kubernetes to Astro, what is driving their Airflow 3 upgrade, and how they are approaching agentic AI, MCP, and credential security.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction.
01:31 Saks Global today…
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