Airflow was created in 2014 by Maxime Beauchemin at Airbnb to address the need for a scalable, dynamic workflow management system. It aimed to enable the programmatic creation, scheduling, and monitoring of complex data pipelines.
Airflow
Airflow is an open-source platform designed to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows. It allows users to define tasks and their dependencies as code, ensuring complex data pipelines are managed efficiently and reliably.
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Strengths of Airflow include its scalability, flexibility in defining workflows as code, and robust community support. Weaknesses involve a steep learning curve and sometimes complex setup and maintenance. Competitors include Luigi, Prefect, and Dagster.
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An Airflow expert must have strong skills in Python programming, understanding of DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) concepts, experience with SQL for database interactions, proficiency in using and managing cloud services, and familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker.
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