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A Newcomer's Guide To Airflow's Architecture
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Andrew Godwin
July 12, 2021
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A Newcomer's Guide To Airflow's Architecture
A talk I gave at Airflow Summit 2021.
Andrew Godwin
July 12, 2021
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Transcript
A NEWCOMER'S GUIDE TO ANDREW GODWIN // @andrewgodwin AIRFLOW'S ARCHITECTURE
Hi, I’m Andrew Godwin • Principal Engineer at • Also
a Django core developer, ASGI author • Using Airflow since March 2021
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High-Level Concepts What exactly is going on? The Good and
the Bad Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Scheduler Problems, Fixes & The Future Where we go from here
Differences from things I have worked on? (An eclectic variety
of web and backend systems)
"Real-time" versus batch The availability versus consistency tradeoff is different!
Simple concepts, hard to master In Django, it's the ORM. In Airflow, scheduling. It's all still distributed systems Which is fortunate, after fifteen years of doing them
Airflow grew organically It started off as an internal ETL
tool
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DAG ➡ DagRun One per scheduled run, as the run
starts Operator ➡ Task When you call an operator in a DAG Task ➡ TaskInstance When a Task needs to run as part of a DagRun
Scheduler Works out what TaskInstances need to run Executor Runs
TaskInstances and records the results
Scheduler LocalExecutor Webserver Database DAG Files
Scheduler CeleryExecutor Webserver Database DAG Files Redis/Queue Workers
The Executor runs inside the Scheduler Its logic, at least,
and the tasks too for local ones
Everything talks to the database It's the single central point
of coordination
Scheduler, Workers, Webserver All can be run in a high-availability
pattern
Scheduler Works out what TaskInstances need to run Executor Runs
TaskInstances and records the results
Scheduler Works out what TaskInstances need to run Executor Runs
TaskInstances and records the results
Timing Dependencies Retries Concurrency Callbacks ...
Scheduler Works out what TaskInstances need to run Executor Runs
TaskInstances and records the results
Celery or Kubernetes Our two main options, currently
Scheduler CeleryExecutor Webserver Database DAG Files Redis/Queue Workers
Scheduler KubernetesExecutor Webserver Database DAG Files Kubernetes Task Pods
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Tasks are the core part of the model DAGs are
more of a grouping/trigger mechanism
Very flexible runtime environments Airflow's strength, and its weakness
Airflow doesn't know what you're running This is both an
advantage and a disadvantage.
What can we improve? Let's talk about The Future
More Async & Eventing Anything that involves waiting!
Scheduler CeleryExecutor Webserver Database DAG Files Redis/Queue Workers Triggerer
Removing Database Connections APIs scale a lot better!
I do like the database, though There's a lot of
benefit in proven technology
Software Engineering is not just coding Any large-scale project needs
documentation, architecture, and coordination
Maintenance & compatibility is crucial Anyone can write a tool
- supporting it takes effort
Airflow is forged by people like you. Coding, documentation, triage,
QA, support - it all needs doing.
Thanks. Andrew Godwin @andrewgodwin
[email protected]