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Fundamentals of Apache Airflow

Automate your data pipelines with Apache Airflow. This hands-on course starts with the basics and builds up to real-world orchestration, from retries to Spark and external data ingestion.

3 Days

Average time students take to complete this course.

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Taught by: Ivan Mushketyk
Last updated: September 2025

Rated 4.9 out of 5 on Trustpilot

What you'll learn

  • How to build and schedule workflows with Apache Airflow
  • Core concepts of DAGs, tasks, operators, and scheduling
  • Error handling, retries, and making workflows fault-tolerant
  • Ensuring idempotency and robustness in data pipelines
  • Using sensors to wait for external systems or events
  • Orchestrating Apache Spark jobs within Airflow
  • Connecting Airflow with external data sources
  • Ingesting data into a data lake with automation

Getting data from point A to point B is only part of the job. Making sure it gets there reliably, automatically, and at the right time? That’s where Apache Airflow comes in.

This course teaches you how to turn messy, manual pipelines into clean, orchestrated workflows. You’ll start simple - by understanding what Airflow does and how it works—then step into more advanced techniques like retries, handling failures gracefully, using sensors, and working with Apache Spark. You'll also learn how to automate data ingestion from outside sources into your data lake.

Whether you’re just getting into data engineering or looking to sharpen your orchestration game, this course gives you the practical tools to make your data pipelines reliable and scalable.

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Course curriculum

To make sure this course is a good fit for you, you can start learning Apache Airflow for free right now by clicking any of the PREVIEW links below.

Introduction

5 lectures

Introduction

PREVIEW

What Is Apache Airflow?5:18

PREVIEW

Airflow’s Architecture3:14

PREVIEW

Exercise: Meet Your Classmates and Instructor

PREVIEW

Course Resources

PREVIEW

Setup and Useful Resources

5 lectures

[Optional] Apache Spark Introduction

2 lectures

Implementing Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow

20 lectures

Where To Go From Here?

2 lectures

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Meet your instructor

Your Data Engineering instructor (Ivan) isn't just an expert with years of real-world professional experience. He has been in your shoes. He makes learning fun. He makes complex topics feel simple. He will motivate you. He will push you. And he will go above and beyond to help you succeed.

Ivan Mushketyk

Hi, I'm Ivan Mushketyk!

Ivan is a data & software engineer with 12+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems. His career spans early-stage startups and industry leaders, including AWS and Stripe, where he built production-grade cloud and data applications.

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Frequently asked questions

Are there any prerequisites for this course?

  • Basic Python knowledge is required. If you don't have that we recommend taking the first few sections of our Python Bootcamp course, which is included in your ZTM Academy membership.

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