Break Up a Big Airflow DAG into Multiple Files

Modularize Chunks of Your Large Airflow DAG for Easy Reüse and Maintainability

L. D. Nicolas May
Towards Data Science
4 min readAug 11, 2021

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I was working on a Airflow DAG file that was growing into the hundreds of lines. Making changes required bouncing back-and-forth around the file, taking notes on a scratchpad to get everything right. Once I got to the point of opening multiple views of…

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