Bas Harenslak

Bas Harenslak, author of the first edition, is a staff architect at Astronomer. In his daily job, he helps large-scale Airflow users worldwide get the most out of Airflow by supporting complex use cases and running production deployments at large scale. He is also a committer on the Apache Airflow project. He is passionate about open source software that is relied upon by users and organizations around the world.

books by Bas Harenslak

Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow, Second Edition
  • January 2026
  • ISBN 9781633436374
  • 512 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Cloud / Data Engineering / Data Pipelines
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Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow, Second Edition teaches you how to build, monitor, and maintain effective data workflows. This new edition adds comprehensive coverage of Airflow 3 features, such as event-driven scheduling, dynamic task mapping, DAG versioning, and Airflow’s entirely new UI. The numerous examples address common use cases like data ingestion and transformation and connecting to multiple data sources, along with AI-aware techniques such as building RAG systems.

Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow
  • April 2021
  • ISBN 9781617296901
  • 480 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Cloud / Data Engineering / Data Pipelines
resources: Source code Errata Book Forum Better Data Pipeline Management Source code on GitHub An Overview of Apache Airflow Architecture Register your pBook for a free eBook

Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow teaches you how to build and maintain effective data pipelines. You’ll explore the most common usage patterns, including aggregating multiple data sources, connecting to and from data lakes, and cloud deployment. Part reference and part tutorial, this practical guide covers every aspect of the directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that power Airflow, and how to customize them for your pipeline’s needs.