How to use Variables and XCom in Apache Airflow?

Maciej Szymczyk
4 min readDec 11, 2020

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It is said that Apache Airflow is CRON on steroids. It is gaining popularity among tools for ETL orchestration (Scheduling, managing and monitoring tasks). The tasks are defined as Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), in which they exchange information. In the entry you will learn how to use Variables and XCom in Apache Airflow.

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Maciej Szymczyk

Software Developer, Big Data Engineer, Blogger (https://wiadrodanych.pl), Amateur Cyclists & Triathlete, @maciej_szymczyk