Apache Airflow Fundamentals: DAGs, Scheduling, and Orchestration

<p>Follow Owen Vance, the data engineer at Kestrel Freight Systems, as he replaces a tangle of fragile cron jobs with a real Apache Airflow pipeline &mdash; wiring dependency-aware DAGs, sensible retries with exponential backoff, Slack alerting, idempotent task design, and dynamic task generation that scales the pipeline from six depots to twenty carriers without rewriting the DAG.</p>

Tools: Python, Apache Airflow, Cron, Slack API