Airflow
ActiveDescription
Apache's workflow orchestration platform, the industry-standard ETL solution.
Key Features
- DAG model — Explicit dependencies
- Rich operators — 200+ built-in
- Extensible — Custom operators are easy
- K8s integration — Native KubernetesExecutor
- Visual — Task state at a glance
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Strengths & Limitations
✅ Strengths
- • Actively maintained, recent updates
- • High community interest (46.5k stars)
- • Permissive open-source license (Apache-2.0)
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Quick Start
# Install
pip install apache-airflow
# Init DB
airflow db init
# Start webserver and scheduler
airflow webserver -p 8080 &
airflow scheduler