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It was a bottleneck once they scaled the work. Shopify initially saved all these files on GCS ( Google Cloud Storage). These files should be consistent across all workers in the Airflow platform. Slow File Access When Using Cloud StorageĪirflow keeps DAG presentations updated by scanning all files in the DAG configuration directory. Here are some highlighted guidelines shared by engineers at Shopify: To run Airflow at the mentioned scale, there is a need to tune and customize Airflow for the optimal experience. This environment averages over 400 tasks running at a given moment and over 150,000 runs executed per day. In our largest environment, we run over 10,000 DAGs representing a large variety of workloads. Shopify’s usage of Airflow has scaled dramatically over the past two years. They mentioned in their blog post about the scale of Airflow usage at Shopify: The following diagram shows Airflow architecture and deployment in Shopify.Īirflow has been used to handle a large number of workflows. They were running Airflow 2.2 on Kubernetes, using the Celery executor and MySQL 8. In the blog post written by Spotify engineers, Airflow is used for orchestrating different applications like machine learning model training, and data pipeline operations. It is one of the most popular orchestration platforms in any enterprise for data and service management and DevOps. Airflow executes tasks using workers while following the dependencies among them. Workflows are defined as the DAGs of tasks. They shared practical solutions for the challenges they faced like slow file access, insufficient control over DAG (directed acyclic graph), irregular level of traffic, resource contention among workloads, and more.Īpache Airflow (in short Airflow) is a platform to write, schedule, and monitor workflow operations.
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Shopify engineering shared its experience in the company's blog post on how to scale and optimize Apache Airflow for running ML and data workflows.