Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow

This book is great. It builds up piece by piece and explains what is going on every step of the way. It shows you best practices and goes into great detail on relatively advanced topics, in addition to covering all the basics. The code examples can easily be adapted for your use case and are very well documented and explained.I wish I had this book when I started using Airflow. I had used it for 2 years in production prior to reading this and only the first five chapters were already known to me. There is a lot of great material here for both new comers and knowledgable practitioners alike. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

This is the type of book where you can read the first two chapters and be good to go for fundamentals. The rest of the book is basically building up on what you learned. Such great instruction packed into a few papers. Probably one of the better written manuals for a framework/work-flow tool I've read so far... and I've read many this past year alone. Go on and get it.

I like the fact that it infuses best practices for pipeline management apart from just using AA as a tool for implementing pipelines.I actually plan on re-reading portions of it again, apart from wanting to reference it for airflow-specific questions.

A great book on Airflow, how operate it, configure it, interface with 3rd party systems (particularly cloud or db related). I particularly liked the emphasis on some counter-intuitive features to prevent beginners from wasting time on figuring a couple of tweaks for themselves.

I’ve read a lot of CS books, this is in the top 5. It’s well written and full of domain knowledge.

This is a great guide to Airflow, covering the basics and advanced topics such as how to test dags and running tasks in containers. Highly recommended!

From a practitioner: There are many great things here, but... Security is not addressed until page 322. This is indicative of our data engineering culture, not just this book. Security should be the third thing covered after Extract and Load (we can wait on Transform until we've secured the data).

Absolutely great book. Airflow documentation on the internet can be fragmented and often overly abstracted. This book covers everything an aspiring dev needs to know using realistic (or at least represenative) examples. Thumbsup²