Airflow VS Kedro

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

Interesting, thanks for sharing. I'll definitely take a look, although at this point I am so comfortable with Snakemake, it is a bit hard to imagine what would convince me to move to another tool. But I like the idea of composable pipelines: I am building a tool (too early to share) that would allow to lay Snakemake pipelines on top of each other using semi-automatic data annotations similar to how it is done in kedro (https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro).

# pyproject.toml [project] dependencies = [ "kedro @ git+https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro@3ea7231", "kedro-datasets[pandas.CSVDataSet,polars.CSVDataSet] @ git+https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro-plugins@3b42fae#subdirectory=kedro-datasets", ]

So there's 2 sides to pipeline management: the actual definition of the pipelines (in code) and how/when/where you run them. Some tools like prefect or airflow do both of them at once, but for the actual pipeline definition I'm a fan of https://kedro.org. You can then use most available orchestrators to run those pipelines on whatever schedule and architecture you want.

We have set up a milestone on GitHub so you can check in on our progress and contribute if you want to. To suggest features to us, report bugs, or just see what we're working on right now, visit the Kedro projects on GitHub.

you could use a project framework like kedro to force you to be more disciplined about how you structure your projects. I'd also recommend checking out this book: Edna Ridge - Guerrilla Analytics: A Practical Approach to Working with Data

Recently I started a position as Developer Advocate for Kedro, an opinionated data science framework, and one of the things we're doing is exploring what are the best open source tools we can use to create our documentation.

You can also check out Kedro, it’s like the Flask for data science projects and helps apply clean code principles to data science code.

An often overlooked framework used by NASA among others is Kedro https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro. Kedro is probably the simplest set of abstractions for building pipelines but it doesn't attempt to kill Airflow. It even has an Airflow plugin that allows it to be used as a DSL for building Airflow pipelines or plug into whichever production orchestration system is needed.