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Apache Airflow — Workflow Orchestration & DAG Design

Data Pipelines skills for the Data Engineer career path. Filter, model, and reason about the real data this role works with every day.

Professional Mid priority 1 Sandbox & Simulation Sandbox & Interactive Quiz
What you'll learn

Data Pipelines skills for the Data Engineer

Building on PySpark Fundamentals, this lesson focuses on the practical Data Pipelines toolkit a working Data Engineer reaches for on the job.

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Sandbox preview

Try the first query

-- Data Pipelines — your first interaction
SELECT example, value
FROM data-pipelines_dataset
WHERE priority = '1'
  AND career = 'Data Engineer';

preview · Sprint-2 will replace this with a live runner
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Sprint-1 stub

This is the Sprint-1 stub for ai.careerplane.data-analytics.data-engineer.data-pipelines.airflow. The fully-generated topic page (sandbox + quiz + AI hints + interactive tooling) lands in Sprint-2 at static/content/data-analytics/Data Engineer/Data Pipelines/Apache Airflow — Workflow Orchestration & DAG Design/index.html (per arch/memo.md → D-2026-04-22-13). The //go:embed all:static directive auto-serves it on the next container rebuild — no server-code change needed.

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