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Transforming the Airflow UI for Cloudera’s Users with Shubham Raj

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Contributing to open-source projects can be daunting, but it can also unlock unexpected innovation. This episode showcases how one engineer’s journey with Apache Airflow led to impactful UI enhancements and infrastructure solutions at scale. Shubham Raj, Software Engineer II at Cloudera, shares how his contributions helped shape Airflow 3.0, including an intuitive drag-and-drop DAG editor and a new REST API endpoint for managing XComs.

Key Takeaways:

(02:30) Day-to-day responsibilities building platforms that simplify orchestration.

(05:27) Factors that make onboarding into large open-source projects accessible.

(07:35) The value of improved user interfaces for task state visibility and control.

(09:49) Enabling faster debugging by exposing internal data through APIs.

(13:00) Balancing frontend design goals with backend functionality.

(14:19) Creating workflow editors that lower the barrier to entry.

(16:54) Supporting a variety of task types within a visual DAG builder.

(19:32) Common infrastructure challenges faced by orchestration users.

(20:37) Addressing dependency management across distributed environments.

Resources Mentioned:

Shubham Raj

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shubhamrajofficial/

Cloudera | LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudera/

Cloudera | Website

https://www.cloudera.com/

Apache Airflow

https://airflow.apache.org/

2023 Airflow Summit

https://airflowsummit.org/

https://www.astronomer.io/events/roadshow/london/

https://www.astronomer.io/events/roadshow/new-york/

https://www.astronomer.io/events/roadshow/sydney/

https://www.astronomer.io/events/roadshow/san-francisco/

https://www.astronomer.io/events/roadshow/chicago/

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Transforming the Airflow UI for Cloudera’s Users with Shubham Raj

The Data Flowcast: Mastering Apache Airflow ® for Data Engineering and AI

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