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Airflow
Apache Airflow
Scheduling and orchestration for data workflows
What it means
Apache Airflow is an open-source platform for defining, scheduling and monitoring workflows as code. A workflow is represented as a directed acyclic graph, or DAG, whose tasks can run data extraction, transformation and other jobs with defined dependencies and retry rules.
What it means for a business
A data team can use Airflow to coordinate a nightly workflow that extracts sales data, runs transformations and updates a warehouse. Task status and configured alerts help the team investigate failures before reports are used.