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Airflow Basics (Overview)

Part of the AI Engineer Roadmap.

Summary

A workflow orchestration tool for scheduling and monitoring data pipelines as DAGs — the industry-standard way to run recurring ETL and ML training jobs.

How to Learn This

  • 1Read Airflow's core concepts: DAGs, tasks, operators, scheduling.
  • 2Run the Airflow quickstart locally and trigger a simple DAG.
  • 3Understand when a project needs an orchestrator vs. a simple cron job.

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SQL Basics (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)Working with Databases in PythonData Pipelines (Concept)ETL vs ELTBatch vs Streaming DataData Warehouses (Concept)Working with APIs for Data CollectionWeb Scraping (BeautifulSoup)
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