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Orchestration

Stage 6 of 13 · 19 resources · 1 categories

What this stage is

Orchestration is stage 6 of 13 in the DE//AGENT roadmap. It currently holds 19 resources: 10 tutorials, 2 skills, 2 agents across 1 category.

What it teaches

Dependencies, retries, backfills and idempotency.

What you can do after this stage

  • Build an idempotent DAG
  • Plan a safe backfill

Exit gate

Gate: You can schedule and recover a multi-step pipeline. The stage deliverable: project-dbt-warehouse-tests.

Gates are self-assessed — the roadmap does not track your progress; it tells you what to be able to do before moving on.

Categories in this stage

Registry resources for this stage

Sorted by composite score — provenance, completeness and trust, per the scoring model:

ResourceTypeDifficultyVerificationScore
Airflow DAG ReviewerSkillintermediatecommunity39.5
Backfill PlannerSkilladvancedcommunity39.5
Safe BackfillPatternadvancedcommunity34.75
Review a DAG for idempotency and retry safetyTutorialbeginnercommunity34.15
Scaffold an idempotent DAG from the templateTutorialbeginnercommunity34.15
The orchestration mental model — DAGs, schedules, idempotency, backfillsTutorialbeginnercommunity34.15
Capstone — the checklist that decides whether a DAG shipsTutorialintermediatecommunity34.15
Fan out over date batches with dynamic task mappingTutorialintermediatecommunity34.15
Gate backfills with the safety check hookTutorialintermediatecommunity34.15
Make a DAG data-aware with reschedule-mode sensorsTutorialintermediatecommunity34.15
Plan and execute a safe backfillTutorialintermediatecommunity34.15
Production gotchas — topology, timeouts, concurrencyTutorialintermediatecommunity34.15
Wire task dependencies and retries that survive failureTutorialintermediatecommunity34.15
Pipeline ReviewerAgentintermediatecommunity33.5
Backfill Safety CheckHookadvancedcommunity32.6
Backfill requiredRunbookadvancedcommunity30.25
Backfill PlannerAgentadvancedcommunity29
Apache Airflow DocumentationReference—community27.7
Airflow DAG TemplateTemplateintermediatecommunity27.1

Documented learning objectives

  • Make every task safe to re-run
  • Choose retries and timeouts deliberately
  • Predict what a backfill will do before running it
  • Scope a backfill by date and by dependency
  • Detect which downstream tables must also be rebuilt
  • Stage a backfill gradually with validation between batches
  • Apply the idempotency test to every task in a DAG
  • Justify retry, timeout and concurrency settings per task

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