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 Duration 21 hours

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Refresher on Apache Airflow Fundamentals

  • Core principles: DAGs, tasks, and operators
  • Overview of Airflow architecture and key components
  • Review of typical use cases and workflow patterns

Enhancing Workflow Performance

  • Detecting performance bottlenecks within Airflow pipelines
  • Techniques for optimizing individual tasks
  • Utilizing task retries, parallelism, and concurrency controls

Handling Complex Dependencies

  • Setting up dynamic dependencies within workflows
  • Managing conditional logic and branching structures
  • Effective use of task groups and sub-DAGs

Exploring Advanced Apache Airflow Capabilities

  • Developing custom operators and hooks
  • Deploying sensors to react to external triggers
  • Integrating third-party services and plugin extensions

Scaling Apache Airflow Infrastructure

  • Strategies for horizontal and vertical scaling
  • Leveraging Celery Executors for distributed task execution
  • Best practices for scaling in cloud-based environments

Workflow Monitoring and Debugging

  • Setting up logging and alerting systems for workflow oversight
  • Utilizing the Airflow UI and CLI tools for issue resolution
  • Diagnosing and fixing common deployment challenges

Securing Apache Airflow

  • Configuring authentication and access control mechanisms
  • Safeguarding sensitive data and environment configurations
  • Establishing audit trails for workflow activities

Enterprise Applications and Best Practices

  • Architecting robust workflows for production workloads
  • Applying Airflow to data engineering and ETL pipeline automation
  • Analyzing real-world examples of scalable Airflow implementations

Conclusion and Future Directions

Requirements

  • Foundational understanding of Apache Airflow
  • Proficiency in Python programming and an understanding of workflow orchestration principles
  • Experience deploying and managing applications in Linux-based environments

Target Audience

  • Data Engineers
  • DevOps Specialists
  • Software Developers

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