Summary
In this chapter, we learned about Cloud Composer. Having learned about Cloud Composer, we then needed to know how to work with Airflow. We realized that as an open source tool, Airflow has a wide range of features. We focused on how to use Airflow to help us build a data pipeline for our BigQuery data warehouse. There are a lot more features and capabilities in Airflow that are not covered in this book. You can always expand your skills in this area, but you will already have a good foundation after finishing this chapter.
As a tool, Airflow is fairly simple. You just need to know how to write a Python script to define DAGs. We’ve learned in the Level 1 DAG exercise that you just need to write simple code to build your first DAG, but a complication arises when it comes to best practices, as there are a lot of best practices that you can follow. At the same time, there are also a lot of potential bad practices that Airflow developers can make.
By learning the examples...
