Understanding Apache Airflow DAGs: Structure, Communication, and Deployment (opens in new tab)

Apache Airflow has become one of the most widely used workflow orchestration platforms for building, scheduling, and monitoring data pipelines. At the heart of Airflow lies the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), a structure that defines how tasks are organized and executed. Understanding DAGs is essential for anyone working with data engineering, ETL pipelines, or workflow automation. What is a DAG? A Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is a collection of tasks organized in a way that defines dependencie...