DAG Orchestration

Concepts: paDagOrchestration

What They Want to Hear 'A DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) defines tasks and their dependencies. Airflow is the standard orchestrator. Each task is a node, edges define ordering. If Task B depends on Task A, Airflow will not start B until A succeeds.' Then the key insight: 'Cron can schedule a job, but it cannot manage dependencies between jobs, retry failed tasks, or show you the state of your entire pipeline at a glance. That is why Airflow exists.'