Apache Airflow is an open-source platform for managing, planning, and monitoring workflows. It is widely used to automate data engineering tasks, such as extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data, and orchestrating complex data pipelines.
DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graphs): Workflows in Airflow are modeled as DAGs, where each task is a node and the arrows indicate the order of execution.
Scalability: Airflow can be scaled to manage thousands of tasks per day and is suitable for large, complex workflows.
Flexibility and Extensibility: You can define workflows with Python, which makes Airflow extremely flexible and easy to integrate with other tools and systems.
Monitoring and Logging: Airflow provides a web interface for monitoring workflows and accessing detailed logs of each task.
Integrations: It supports a wide range of integrations with databases, APIs, cloud services, and other tools, including Hadoop, Spark, and AWS.
SLA Management: You can set Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for tasks so that you get alerts when certain time limits are exceeded.