Operators

• Jun 06, 2026
• data-engineering

Anatomy of an Airflow DAG: Your First Rocket Launch Pipeline

Book: Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow
Authors: Bas Harenslak, Julian de Ruiter
ISBN: 9781617296901

Chapter 1 was theory. Chapter 2 is hands-on. The book follows John, a rocket enthusiast who wants upcoming launch images on his machine. The Launch Library API returns JSON with image URLs. John’s plan: download metadata, fetch pictures, notify when done. That becomes your first real Airflow DAG.

• Mar 20, 2026
• Big Data

Deploying the Big Data Stack on Kubernetes - Part 1

We’ve explored Spark, Airflow, and Kafka as individual tools. But the real goal of Neylson Crepalde’s book is to show you how to run them all as a cohesive “stack” on Kubernetes. In Chapter 8, we finally start the heavy lifting of deployment.