Hi Vikram,

Great thoughts on this.

I agree with this:

> I am concerned that we are overwhelming our audience segment (1) with the
> work and configurations around running Airflow at scale.


I would like to see a better separation on 1) how to set up an airflow
cluster in production, how to monitor the health of an airflow cluster 2)
how to write better airflow DAGs.

I also like the idea of segmenting the release notes for different groups.


Thanks,

Ping


On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 8:50 PM Vikram Koka <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> As I have been looking through the recent AIPs, development features, and
> mailing list discussions, it struck me that we have effectively three
> different audiences here for Airflow.
>
> 1. Individuals and small teams using Airflow for their purpose,
> 2. Enterprises managing Airflow for large teams of data engineers and data
> scientists, and
> 3. Service providers making "Airflow as a service" available for many
> customers, either external or internal.
>
> Why does this even matter? Let me elaborate below:
>
>    - Clearly, a lot of "data practitioners", people who are primarily
>    focused on creating pipelines and working with data are spread across all
>    three audiences above.
>    - However, "Airflow administrators" i.e. people who are focused on
>    running Airflow for data practitioners, especially at scale are primarily
>    in the audiences (2) and (3) above.
>    - It is my observation that a lot of work being done right now in
>    Airflow such as multi-tenancy (but not limited to it), is focused on
>    Airflow administration.
>    - I am concerned that we are overwhelming our audience segment (1)
>    with the work and configurations around running Airflow at scale.
>
>
> If this is true, I would like to propose that we segment our Airflow
> configurations, our packaging including our docs, and even our release
> notes to make it easier for our audience (1), who is almost certainly the
> largest block of our Airflow user community.
>
> I would like the opinions of the community on this topic.
>
> Best regards,
> Vikram
>
>

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