Mastering Airflow Variables

The way you retrieve variables from Airflow can impact the performance of your DAGs

Giorgos Myrianthous
Towards Data Science
10 min readJan 27, 2024

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What happens if multiple data pipelines need to interact with the same API endpoint? Would you really have to declare this endpoint in every pipeline? In case this endpoint changes in the near future, you will have to update its value in every single file.

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