Airflow Taskflow is a new way of writing DAGs at ease. As you will see, you need to write fewer lines than before to obtain the same DAG. That helps to make DAGs easier to build, read, and maintain. The Taskflow API has three main aspects: XCOM Args, Decorator, and XCOM backends. In this tutorial, …
The ShortCircuitOperator in Apache Airflow is simple but powerful. It allows skipping tasks based on the result of a condition. There are many reasons why you may want to stop running tasks. Let’s see how to use the ShortCircuitOperator and what you should be aware of. By the way, if you are new to Airflow, …
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DAG Dependencies in Apache Airflow might be one of the most popular topics. I received countless questions about DAG dependencies, is it possible? How? What are the best practices? and the list goes on. It’s funny because it comes naturally to wonder how to do that even when we are beginners. Do we like to …
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Airflow Timetable. This new concept introduced in Airflow 2.2 is going to change your way of scheduling your data pipelines. Or I would say, you’re finally going to have all the freedom and flexibility you ever dreamt of for scheduling your DAGs. What if you want to run your DAG for specific schedule intervals with …
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Airflow on Kubernetes is quite popular isn’t it? There is a good chance that you know Kubernetes, that you even have a Kubernetes cluster and you would like to deploy and run Airflow on it. However, Kubernetes is hard. There is so many things to deal with that it can be really laborious to just …
The new Airflow API is here! After waiting impatiently for years, the Airflow API is finally stable and reliable enough to be used in production! Back in the day, I’m pretty sure that you remember well the Experimental API and its lack of endpoints and documentation. In fact, as it was “experimental” you shouldn’t even …
Airflow Sensors are one of the most commonly used type of operators. Why? Because they allow you to check if a criteria is met to get completed. You need to wait for a file? check if a SQL entry exists? delay the execution of your DAG? That’s the few possibilities of the Airflow Sensors. If …
Looking for creating your first Airflow DAG? Wondering how to process your data in Airflow? What are the steps to code your own data pipelines? You’ve come to the right place! At the end of this short tutorial, you will be able to code your first Airflow DAG! You might think it’s hard to start …
Airflow DAG: Creating your first DAG in 5 minutes Read More »
Looking for a way to choose one task or another? You want to execute a task based on a condition? You multiple tasks but only one should be executed if a criterion is true? You’ve come to the right place! The BranchPythonOperator does exactly what you are looking for. It’s common to have DAGs with …
Wondering how to share data between tasks? What are XCOMs in Apache Airflow? Well you are at the right place. In this tutorial, you are going to learn everything you need about XComs in Airflow. What are they, how they work, how can you define them, how to get them and more. If you followed …
