AI engineering glossary · Data engineering
What is Apache Airflow?
Apache Airflow (also called Airflow): An open-source platform for authoring, scheduling and monitoring workflows written as Python code. Tasks and their dependencies are declared, and it retries failures and shows run history in a web interface.
Apache Airflow: an example
An Airflow workflow runs at 1 a.m.: extract sales, validate, transform, then refresh a dashboard table.
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Where you learn it
Apache Airflow is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.