# One Airflow instance owns a 60-task mega-DAG spanning three teams: ingestion, analytics-engineering

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Domain: Pipeline Design · Difficulty: medium

## Problem

One Airflow instance owns a 60-task mega-DAG spanning three teams: ingestion, analytics-engineering curation, and ML feature extraction. When the analytics dbt step fails, the unrelated ML feature extraction halts and pages cross team lines all night. Apply the section's split-DAG framing and split the orchestrator along ownership boundaries so a failure in one team's branch does not halt unrelated work in another.

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