GGeorge Ezejiofor·Oct 16Self-Hosted Databricks Alternative: Homelab Data Lakehouse (AI/ML Data Factory)Self-Hosted Databricks Alternative: Homelab Data Lakehouse (AI/ML Data Factory)40 min read·georgeezejiofor.com312YBN
IIT-Craftsman·Oct 12Airflow 3 quietly changed what your cron schedule meansIn Airflow 3 a bare cron string no longer creates data intervals by default. Here is what changed, why your ds can shift by a day, and how to make your DAGs upgrade-proof.4 min read·itcraftsman.hashnode.dev
FFred Feng·Oct 1Cronflower: Run a DAG workflow across your cluster, instead of chaining cron jobsDistributed DAG workflow engine on Spring Boot cluster6 min read·fredfeng.hashnode.dev
CCiphemic academia·Sep 16Data Engineer Career Path: Beyond the Clean CSV Import (2026)Real data engineering is defined by messy data, scheduled pipelines, and systems that keep working when something breaks. Here's the real path.7 min read·ciphemicacademia.hashnode.dev
VVishnu Nukala·Sep 6What If Your Food Delivery App Could Just... Understand You?built an AI food data platform using AWS S3, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, RAG, and natural-language-to-SQL to turn raw data into actionable insights.7 min read·vishnunukala.hashnode.dev
SSanskriti Harmukh·Sep 3Installing Apache Airflow on Ubuntu 24.04Install Apache Airflow on Ubuntu 24.04 with a PostgreSQL backend, expose it securely through Nginx, and run a sample DAG.8 min read·vultr.hashnode.dev
SSunny·Aug 30🕳️ HomeLab Chronicles: Episode 9 - Tunnel VisionHey all 👋 State of the lab: two nodes, Flux in charge, Airflow alive, backups nightly, RBAC banished to therapy. The UI works from anywhere in the house. But "in the house" is a service radius measur6 min read·sunny-snskarora.hashnode.dev
SSunny·Aug 30🤫 HomeLab Chronicles: Episode 8 - The Silent TreatmentHey all 👋 Quick recap: power cut (Ep5), GitOps (Ep6), locked myself out of my own control plane (Ep7), rebuilt in twenty minutes because GitOps (Ep6, smugly). Now: getting Airflow back up. Which shou7 min read·sunny-snskarora.hashnode.dev
SSunny·Aug 28🌪️ HomeLab Chronicles: Episode 4 - TurbulenceHey all 👋Sit tight! Because this is a little lengthy one. Last episode I closed by announcing that I would be adding two more nodes and bringing in Cilium. Confident. Specific. A real roadmap. The De18 min read·sunny-snskarora.hashnode.dev
PPranjal Verma·Aug 23Apache Iceberg: The Backbone of the Modern Open LakehouseHow snapshots, REST catalogs, and a disciplined maintenance pipeline turn raw object storage into an operable multi-engine lakehouse6 min read·blog.pvcodes.in
