Virtual Lab A
Virtual environment for elegant workflow management
Apache Airflow is an elegant solution for data engineers to create reliable and maintainanble processes. Virtual Lab A is a pre-setup optimised machine that includes Airflow, SQL Database and No SQL Database to test and deploy DAGs. You can deploy Virtual Lab A on Microsoft Azure in seconds and save on configuration cost and complexity.
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Airflow is a platform that lets you build and run workflows. A workflow is represented as a DAG (a Directed Acyclic Graph), and contains individual pieces of work called Tasks, arranged with dependencies and data flows taken into account.
You find more at Airflow Architecture Overview.
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The Airflow makes it easy to monitor and troubleshoot your data pipelines. You can see exactly how many tasks succeeded, failed, or are currently running at a glance.
Main Features:
- Easy to Use: Anyone with Python knowledge can deploy a workflow. They can use it to build ML models, transfer data, manage your infrastructure, and more.
- Pure Python: Use standard Python features to create your workflows, including date time formats for scheduling and loops to dynamically generate tasks.
- Robust Integrations: Airflow provides many plug-and-play operators that are ready to execute your tasks on Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure and other third-party services.
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