Apache Airflow for Beginners: DAGs, Tasks, Operators, and Scheduling Explained

Introduction Being a beginner in data engineering can seem very scary. People use technical words like ETL, pipelines, data warehouses, architecture, orchestration etc. At that point, it is very easy to feel like you need a computer science degree just to understand what they mean. However, most of these terms are just technical but not as complicated as they sound. Data engineering, in simple terms, involves extracting data from a place such as websites, social media pages, excel/csv files or p