Who Runs Your Machine Learning Pipeline While You Sleep?
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Apache Airflow serves as the silent orchestrator behind machine learning pipelines, automating the repetitive chain of tasks — data ingestion, feature engineering, model retraining, validation, deployment, and reporting — that must run reliably around the clock. Using Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) expressed in Python, Airflow encodes task dependencies and execution order, replacing fragile manual scripts with dependable, transparent workflows. Its web UI provides visibility into running tasks, failures, and execution history, making production ML systems both reliable and debuggable.
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