DAG Patterns

Advanced DAG design patterns, dynamic task generation, and architectural best practices.

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Best Practices for Task Retries in Apache Airflow

Learn how to configure robust retry strategies in Airflow using retries, retry_delay, exponential backoff, and on_failure_callback. Includes real-world patterns for handling flaky APIs, database timeouts, and more.

Neha Agarwal5 min read

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Dynamic Task Mapping in Airflow 2.x: Scale Tasks at Runtime

Master Airflow's Dynamic Task Mapping feature to create a variable number of task instances at runtime. Covers .expand(), .partial(), expand_kwargs(), and real-world patterns for parallel data processing.

Prashant Singh5 min read