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Airflow
An open-source platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs).
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
Apache Airflow is an open-source platform for programmatically authoring, scheduling, and monitoring complex data pipelines and workflows as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), enabling robust orchestration of tasks across various systems.
BACKGROUND
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a retired American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War. Named in allusion to its predecessor, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, the Superfortress was designed for high-altitude strategic bombing, but also excelled in low-altitude night incendiary bombing and in dropping naval mines to blockade Japan. Silverplate B-29s dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and remain the only system to deliver nuclear weapons in combat.
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- Apache Airflow
- Workflow Orchestrator
- DAG Scheduler
- Data Pipeline Tool
USAGE NOTE
Essential for orchestrating complex, scheduled data processing and ML pipelines.
DEVELOPERS
Organizations developing technology related to Airflow.
The non-profit organization that stewards the open-source Apache Airflow project. The community of developers under the ASF is responsible for the core development, maintenance, and releases of Airflow.
A software company co-founded by the creator of Airflow. Astronomer provides Astro, a commercial, managed Airflow platform, and is a primary contributor to the open-source Apache Airflow project.
Offers Cloud Composer, a fully managed workflow orchestration service built on Apache Airflow. Google actively contributes code to the open-source project and deeply integrates it into its cloud ecosystem.
Provides Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA), a managed orchestration service that simplifies the setup and operation of Airflow on the AWS cloud.
Offers Managed Airflow as a capability within Azure Data Factory, providing a managed, scalable environment for running Airflow data pipelines natively on the Azure platform.
An IBM company that develops a data observability platform with deep integration for Apache Airflow. Their technology monitors Airflow DAGs, tracks data lineage, and provides alerting on pipeline failures or data quality issues.
Founded by the creator of Apache Superset and Airflow, Preset develops a cloud-hosted service for Apache Superset. While focused on BI, the company has deep roots in the Airflow community and contributes to the data orchestration ecosystem.