Apache Airflow is an open source tool that can be used to programmatically author, schedule and monitor data pipelines using Python and SQL.
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Step functions are only available in AWS but Apache Airflow provides cross cloud access. Apache Airflow also provides flexibility to pause, start and re-trigger dags. Provides executors where we can run in-house calculations if needed and which requires no integration with …
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SDE 4 in Information Technology at Meesho (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Apache Airflow
Apache Airflow is suited for a much wider set of use cases compared to Databricks. You can run it anywhere, and there is also no vendor lock-in. With Airflow, we can utilize almost any compute engine. Same thing we want to do with Databricks. There might be some level of …
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Multiple DAGs can be orchestrated simultaneously at varying times, and runs can be reproduced or replicated with relative ease. Overall, utilizing Apache Airflow is easier to use than other solutions now on the market. It is simple to integrate in Apache Airflow, and the …
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Engineer in Product Management at IronNet CyberSecurity (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)
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Using Jenkins and Kafka, it is not for the same purpose, although it might be similar. I would say AirFlow is really what it says on the can - workflow management. For our organisation, the purpose is clear. So long your aim is to have a rich workflow scheduler and job …
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Solutions Engineer in Sales at Datameer (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
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Much easy to deploy Apache Airflow as opposed to other products, with flexible deployment options as well as flexible integration with other tools and platforms.
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There are a number of reasons to choose Apache Airflow over other similar platforms- Integrations—ready-to-use operators allow you to integrate Airflow with cloud platforms (Google, AWS, Azure, etc) Apache Airflow helps with backups and other DevOps tasks, such as submitting a …
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Co-Founder & CTO in Research & Development at Mini Venture Lab Private Limited (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Chose Apache Airflow
digdag (https://www.digdag.io/)- Digdag is a very simple build, run, schedule, and monitor complex pipelines of tasks with a simple implementation and no configuration. Easy to write YAMLs
Airflow has a better community and widely adopted. Has a better UI and better documentation
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Overall using Apache Airflow is easy to use compare than other other tools available in the market, It is easy to integrate in apache airflow and the workflow can be monitored and scheduling can be done easily using apache airflow, recommend this tool for Automating the data …
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Airflow is well-suited for data engineering pipelines, creating scheduled workflows, and working with various data sources. You can implement almost any kind of DAG for any use case using the different operators or enforce your operator using the Python operator with ease. The MLOps feature of Airflow can be enhanced to match MLFlow-like features, making Airflow the go-to solution for all workloads, from data science to data engineering.
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Apache Airflow is one of the best Orchestration platforms and a go-to scheduler for teams building a data platform or pipelines.
Apache Airflow supports multiple operators, such as the Databricks, Spark, and Python operators. All of these provide us with functionality to implement any business logic.
Apache Airflow is highly scalable, and we can run a large number of DAGs with ease. It provided HA and replication for workers. Maintaining airflow deployments is very easy, even for smaller teams, and we also get lots of metrics for observability.
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UI/Dashboard can be updated to be customisable, and jobs summary in groups of errors/failures/success, instead of each job, so that a summary of errors can be used as a starting point for reviewing them.
Navigation - It's a bit dated. Could do with more modern web navigation UX. i.e. sidebars navigation instead of browser back/forward.
Again core functional reorg in terms of UX. Navigation can be improved for core functions as well, instead of discovery.
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For its capability to connect with multicloud environments. Access Control management is something that we don't get in all the schedulers and orchestrators. But although it provides so many flexibility and options to due to python , some level of knowledge of python is needed to be able to build workflows.
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Multiple DAGs can be orchestrated simultaneously at varying times, and runs can be reproduced or replicated with relative ease. Overall, utilizing Apache Airflow is easier to use than other solutions now on the market. It is simple to integrate in Apache Airflow, and the workflow can be monitored and scheduling can be done quickly using Apache Airflow. We advocate using this tool for automating the data pipeline or process.
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Impact Depends on number of workflows. If there are lot of workflows then it has a better usecase as the implementation is justified as it needs resources , dedicated VMs, Database that has a cost
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