1. How will you describe Airflow?
Apache Airflow is referred to an open-source platform that is used for workflow management. This one is a data transformation pipeline Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) workflow orchestration tool. It initiated its operations back in October 2014 at Airbnb. At that time, it offered a solution to manage the increasingly complicated workflows of a company. This Airflow tool allowed them to programmatically write, schedule and regulate the workflows through an inbuilt Airflow user interface.
2. What are the problems resolved by Airflow?
Some of the issues and problems resolved by Airflow include:
- Maintaining an audit trail of every completed task
- Scalable in nature
- Creating and maintaining a relationship between tasks with ease
- Comes with a UI that can track and monitor the execution of the workflow and more.
3. What are some of the features of Apache Airflow?
Some of the features of Apache Airflow include:
- It helps schedule all the jobs and their historical status
- Helps in supporting executions through web UI and CRUD operations on DAG
- Helps view Directed Acyclic Graphs and the relation dependencies
4. How does Apache Airflow act as a Solution?
Airflow solves a variety of problems, such as:
- Failures: This tool assists in retrying in case there is a failure.
- Monitoring: It helps in checking if the status has been succeeded or failed.
- Dependency: There are two different types of dependencies, such as:
- Data Dependencies that assist in upstreaming the data
- Execution Dependencies that assist in deploying all the new changes
- Scalability: It helps centralise the scheduler
- Deployment: It is useful in deploying changes with ease
- Processing Historical Data: It is effective in backfilling historical data
5. Define the basic concepts in Airflow.
Airflow has four basic concepts, such as:
- DAG: It acts as the order’s description that is used for work
- Task Instance: It is a task that is assigned to a DAG
- Operator: This one is a Template that carries out the work
- Task: It is a parameterized instance
6. Define integrations of the Airflow.
Some of the integrations that you’ll find in Airflow include:
- Apache Plg
- Amazon EMR
- Kubernetes
- Amazon S3
- AWS Glue
- Hadoop
- Azure Data Lake