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Adi Wijaya
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Adi Widjaja is a strategic cloud data engineer at Google. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Binus University and co-founded DataLabs in Indonesia. Currently, he dedicates himself to big data and analytics and has spent a good chunk of his career helping global companies in different industries.
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Introduction to Cloud Composer

Cloud Composer is an Airflow-managed service in GCP. Using Cloud Composer, we don’t need to think about the infrastructure, installation, and software management for the Airflow environment. With this, we can focus only on the development and deployment of our data pipeline.

From the perspective of a data engineer, there is almost no difference between Cloud Composer and Airflow. When we learn how to use Cloud Composer, basically we learn how Airflow works.

Now, what is Airflow? Airflow is an open source workflow management tool. It comes with many features to support workflows, including monitoring, logging, a user interface, backfilling, and metadata management. What is unique in Airflow is that we use a Python script to manage our workflows, which is very friendly for data engineers in general.

There are some elements that we need to look at in the previous statement. Let’s break down the statement into more detail. When talking...

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Adi Wijaya

Adi Widjaja is a strategic cloud data engineer at Google. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Binus University and co-founded DataLabs in Indonesia. Currently, he dedicates himself to big data and analytics and has spent a good chunk of his career helping global companies in different industries.
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