Understanding Apache Airflow’s key concepts

Part Three of a Four-part Series

In Part I and Part II of Quizlet’s Hunt for the Best Workflow Management System
Around, we motivated the need for workflow management systems (WMS) in modern
business practices, and provided a wish list of features and functions that led us
to choose Apache Airflow as our WMS of choice. This post aims to give the curious
reader a detailed overview of Airflow’s components and operation. We’ll cover
Airflow’s key concepts by implementing the example workflow introduced in Part I of
the series (see Figure 3.1).