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Sensors

Sensors shows up across 2 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

⚙Orchestration & Pipelines

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 free

Scheduler 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 free

Related topics

↗airflow↗airflow scheduler↗backfills↗concurrency control↗DAGs↗dagster↗executors↗operators↗orchestration↗prefect

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