airflow
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The long-standing standard for scheduling and monitoring data pipelines with dependencies between steps.
Real, but not yet worth your team's attention.
Who it's for
Teams running dozens of interdependent scheduled jobs where a silent failure costs real money.
What it replaces
A wall of cron entries and no idea which one failed last night.
The catch
It is heavy: a scheduler, a database and a web server to run and upgrade. Under roughly twenty pipelines, cron plus alerting wins on total cost.
Your first hour
Count your scheduled jobs. Under twenty, add failure alerting to cron instead and spend the saved time elsewhere.
The numbers
Stars46,630
Forks17,697
Stars added (7d)+336
Open issues1,982
LanguagePython
LicenceApache-2.0
Last pushUpdated today
Project age11 years old
Maintainers describe it as: “Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows”
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airflow, in short
- Should a small team use airflow?
- Watch. Real, but not yet worth your team's attention. Teams running dozens of interdependent scheduled jobs where a silent failure costs real money.
- What does airflow actually do?
- The long-standing standard for scheduling and monitoring data pipelines with dependencies between steps.
- What does airflow replace?
- A wall of cron entries and no idea which one failed last night.
- What is the downside of airflow?
- It is heavy: a scheduler, a database and a web server to run and upgrade. Under roughly twenty pipelines, cron plus alerting wins on total cost.
- Can airflow be used in a commercial product?
- Its licence is Apache-2.0, which is permissive and generally fine for commercial use. Confirm against the LICENSE file in the repository.