Airflow 101: Essential Tips For Beginners

Summary:

What is Airflow? Apache Airflow is a way to programmatically author, schedule and monitor data pipelines.

Key Takeaways

• Airflow is the De-facto Standard for Data Orchestration
• Born inside AirBnB, open-sourced, and graduated to a Top-Level Apache Software Foundation Project
• Leveraged by 1M+ data engineers around the globe to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor data pipelines
• Deployed by 1000s of companies as the unbiased data control plane, translating business rules to power their data processing fabric