Getting Started with Airflow 2.0
In modern software development and data processing, orchestration plays a pivotal role in ensuring the coordination and execution of complex workflows. As organizations strive to manage their ever-growing data and application landscapes, the need for an efficient orchestration system becomes paramount.
With Airflow 2.0 having been released for some time and moving quickly to increase its capabilities, we elected to distill our experiences in operating Airflow to help others by showing them patterns that have worked well for others in the past.
Our goal with this book is to help engineers and organizations adopting Apache Airflow as their orchestration solution get the most out of their technology selection by guiding them to better choices as they go through their adoption journey and scale.
In this chapter, we will learn what data orchestration is and how it is applied to several industries facing data challenges. In addition, we will explore...