Summary
In summary, understanding the components of Apache Airflow, their individual roles, and how they interact is crucial for effectively setting up, operating, and optimizing an Airflow environment. This knowledge enables you to choose the right configurations, ensure efficient task execution, and scale the system to meet your business goals confidently. By mastering these elements, you’ll be well-equipped to manage Airflow in production, unlocking opportunities for optimization and leveraging latent capacities as your task and job orchestration needs grow.
In the next chapter we’ll get to start using these components by covering the basics of DAG authoring.
