Apache Airflow is a workflow orchestration platform that lets you define, schedule, and monitor data pipelines as code using Python. Developers use it to build complex ETL/ELT processes, automate data integration tasks, and manage dependencies between jobs across distributed systems. It's commonly used in data engineering, machine learning operations, and any scenario requiring reliable, repeatable task execution at scale.

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