Airflow
Airflow shows up across 4 courses in 1 layerof the data platform stack. Here's where it's taught, a free way to practice it, and what to learn next.
Where it's taught
DAGs, Tasks, and the Scheduler Loop
The tool-agnostic vocabulary every orchestrator's docs assume you already know. DAG, task, operator, executor, sensor, scheduler heartbeat. Once you have these words, every orchestrator's docs read the same.
7 ch · 1h 28m
1 freeScheduler Deep Dive
What Airflow's scheduler, executors, metadata DB, and concurrency knobs are actually doing. Every Airflow shop hits the same five performance walls. This course names them before you hit the third one.
10 ch · 2h 4m
1 freeAirflow in Production
Deploying DAGs without restarting anything, secrets that survive failures, upgrades without losing a weekend, multi-tenant survival, and the cost story nobody tells you. The seven production lessons that decide whether Airflow is a tool or a tax.
7 ch · 1h 23m
1 freeMigrations and Deprecations
Migrating from cron to Airflow without an outage, deprecating a DAG nobody admits they own, moving between warehouses, splitting a monolith DAG, renaming a column safely, and a TheWorldShop case study on the migration that actually worked. The unglamorous half of platform engineering.
6 ch · 1h 9m
1 freePractice it under fire
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