Airflow VS dagster

Contributing to Apache Airflow's open-source project immersed me in collaborative coding. Experienced maintainers rigorously reviewed my contributions, providing constructive feedback. This ongoing dialogue refined the codebase and honed my understanding of best practices.

In week Two, I contributed to the Apache Airflow repository.

Apache Airflow is an open-source platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows. The platform features a web-based user interface and a command-line interface for managing and triggering workflows.

Airflow is the most widely used and well-known tool for orchestrating data workflows. It allows for efficient pipeline construction, scheduling, and monitoring.

AIRFLOW This is more of a library in my opinion, but Airflow has become an essential tool for scheduling in my work. All our ML training pipelines are ordered and scheduled with Airflow and it works seamlessly. The dashboard provided is also fantastic!

I agree there are many options in this space. Two others to consider:

- https://airflow.apache.org/

- https://github.com/spotify/luigi

There are also many Kubernetes based options out there. For the specific use case you specified, you might even consider a plain old Makefile and incrond if you expect these all to run on a single host and be triggered by a new file showing up in a directory…

You can try and contribute some new connectors/operators for workflow managers like Airflow or Airbyte

My recommendation is to continue on with the tutorial, then look at one of the larger example projects especially the ones named “project_”, and you should understand most of it. Of what you don't understand and you're curious about, look into the relevant concept page for the functions in the docs.

I found this example that helped me - https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/tree/master/examples/project_fully_featured/project_fully_featured

I would recommend the following: - https://www.mage.ai/ - https://dagster.io/ - https://www.prefect.io/ - https://metaflow.org/ - https://zenml.io/home

In Helm terms: there are 2 charts, namely the system: dagster/dagster (values.yaml), and the user code: dagster/dagster-user-deployments (values.yaml). Note that you have to set dagster-user-deployments.enabled: true in the dagster/dagster values-yaml to enable this.

Dagster seemed really cool when I looked into it as an alternative to airflow. I especially like the software defined assets and built-in lineage which I haven't seen in any other tool. However it seems it does not support RBAC which is a pretty big issue if you want a self-service type of architecture, see https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/issues/2219. It does seem like it's available in their hosted version, but I wanted to run it myself on k8s.

Dagster? https://dagster.io

One that I haven't seen on here yet: dagster