Airflow DAGs

In Airflow, a pipeline is represented as a Directed Acyclic Graph or DAG. The nodes of the graph represent tasks that are executed. The directed connections between nodes represent dependencies between the tasks.

Representing a data pipeline as a DAG makes much sense, as some tasks need to finish before others can start. You could compare this to an assembly line in a car factory. The tasks build up, and each task can depend on previous tasks being finished. A fictional DAG could look something like this:

Example DAG

Assembling the frame happens first, then the body and tires and finally you paint. Let's reproduce the example above in code.

First, the DAG needs to run on every hour at minute 0. Fill in the schedule_interval keyword argument using the crontab notation. For example, every hour at minute N would be N * * * *. Remember, you need to run at minute 0.

Take Hint (-15 XP)

Exercise

Airflow DAGs

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