#66 Airflow (part 1): Components, Architecture & Setup with Docker

Hang Nguyen
4 min readJul 12, 2022

Airflow enables you to manage your data pipelines by authoring workflows as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) of tasks. There’s no concept of data input or output — just flow. You manage task scheduling as code, and can visualize your data pipelines’ dependencies, progress, logs, code, trigger tasks, and success status.

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Hang Nguyen

A Data Engineer with a passion for technology, literature, and philosophy.