Apache Airflow is an open-source platform designed to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows. It enables users to define a sequence of tasks and dependencies using Python, which allows for a flexible and dynamic workflow orchestration. ### Key Features of Apache Airflow: 1. **Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)**: Workflows are defined as DAGs, where each node represents a task, and edges represent dependencies between tasks. This makes it easy to visualize the execution flow.
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