How Quantopian rearchitected brittle crontabs into resilient pipelines with Apache Airflow

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Quantopian integrates financial data from vendors around the globe. As the scope of its operations outgrew cron, the company turned to Apache Airflow, a distributed scheduler and task executor. James Meickle explains how in less than six months, Quantopian was able to rearchitect brittle crontabs into resilient, recoverable pipelines defined in code to which anyone could contribute.

Product information

  • Title: How Quantopian rearchitected brittle crontabs into resilient pipelines with Apache Airflow
  • Author(s): James Meickle
  • Release date: September 2019
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 0636920452669